Laptop Question

bittles313

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Going to be purchasing a laptop this weekend so I can upgrade to EFI Live.Does the laptop have to have Microsoft Office programming in it in order to use EFI? Thanks in advance...
 

MMLMM

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Microsoft Office...lol


Do you mean Microsoft OS???
Yes, it does.

If you pick up a MAC, you will need to run MS with it somehow (dual boot/emulator, etc.)
 

bittles313

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No I meant office,like excel,word,that type of stuff.I know it has to be Micrisoft Operating System.Some of our logging programs and tables at work are done in excel and access thats why I asked...
 

TrentNell

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Microsoft Office...lol


Do you mean Microsoft OS???
Yes, it does.

If you pick up a MAC, you will need to run MS with it somehow (dual boot/emulator, etc.)

Has any one with a MAC tried running a window's OS in a virtual environment ?

Maybe VM Ware player or something like that would work and just use the window's OS for EFI only ?
 

MMLMM

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Has any one with a MAC tried running a window's OS in a virtual environment ?

Maybe VM Ware player or something like that would work and just use the window's OS for EFI only ?

I have in Virtual mode....I never tried EFI, but AutoCAD. I have a 99.9% feeling EFI would run just fine this way.
 

jlawles2

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I have a mac, and it now has bootcamp which is a built in dual boot. Not running it since I want to run 64 bit os Mickysoft for self research. But from what I understand, it runs 32 bit Windows with no problems.