I need mother board for my macbook pro A1286

i need advise pls thanks

evlynch wrote:
Do I have to upload windows software into my mac in order to do this???
Yes, it's a Windows only program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Project
I just bought the home & business 2011 for macs & didn't realize it didn't have project on it.
It's not part of "Office" according to the link above, it's a standalone software.
I suggest you go with Windows 7 Home/Professional in a virtual machine program like VirtualBox (free, less options) or VMFusion or Parallels (paid, requires paid updates, easier to install, more options)
So your would be running OS X > Virtual machine software > Install Windows (its in a window on OS X) >  Install MS Project into that, create a saved "snapshot" to restore with if you get malware.
BootCamp is really if you need full hardware performance, you have to reboot the machine each time you want to use Windows, which is a drag.
Another drag is if it gets malware, it can be complicated to fix. When a vm you just dump it and restore a snapshot in seconds.
Windows in BootCamp or Virtual Machine?

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