Upgrading to Win 7 in my Parallels machine. Some thoughts. [View all]
First off, I have a 64 bit dual Intel Xeon Mac Pro. Lots of horsepower.
The Parallels installation started out on Parallels 4, then went to 5, 6, and now 7. The WinOS started with XP (whatever Service Pack? 2? 3? I dunno). Then I went to Vista, still 32 bit.
The only two programs I run under Windows (or I would ditch it) is an industry-specific program that works with AutoCAD, and AutoCAD itself. I have an old 2008 version that still works okay for me.
So now I want to upgrade my Win program since, after upgrading to Parallels 7, Vista and the industry-specific program have been crashing. Not sure what the cause is, and I have no desire to troubleshoot it.
So I went out to but an upgrade to Win7. The upgrade version of the cheapest flavor is $119 plus tax.
Why is that?
Mac upgrades are cheap for a better OS. What was Lion? $29?
Lion upgraded in under an hour. Windows has been cranking for a few hours now and still isn't done.
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