Macbook Air - using windows programs?

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Just got myself a macbook air, I was going to get a different model but they were sold out. I'm glad they were, the air is brilliant.

I am normally a windows user so it has been a little bit of an adjustment but it is very intuitive.

The only thing is I have several pieces of software on my old laptop that I want to use on my mac. Is there any way to do this? i don't want to pay out for the same software twice.

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http://www.parallels.com/uk/

or VMware fusion.

 

use virtualbox as it's free. It allows you to run an OS like Windows within OSX. That way you get the best of both worlds being able to use Windows and OSX.

 

I'll echo the advice you've been given above. VMWare, Parallels, or VirtualBox will let you run Windows apps on your Mac. I currently use VMWare, but I've used Parallels in the past. I don't know that either one is better than the other. VirtualBox is free, so that's a good place to start, but I've never used it.

 

I've heard good things of Fusion and the demo I saw made it seem like a fantastic piece of software.

 

I'd also go with fusion, its great!