The Dual-Platform Option

Now that you can get a Mac for less than the cost of a washing machine, a once- radical proposition suddenly makes a lot more sense: supplementing your old PC with a Mac, rather than buying the Mac as a wholesale replacement. You get the ease-of-use and virus immunity of a Mac for your everyday use, but if you ever need to run an old program on your PC, it's there for you too.

It's never been easier to get a Mac and PC to coexist peacefully. With a little know-how, you can get the two talking over a network, sharing an Internet connection, and working with each other's files, as described on Section 5.2.3.