June 2022 Hardware and Software deals

Software
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This year’s Summerfest is now on with discounts available for DEVONthink, Scrivener, Bookends, Aeon Timeline, Mellel, Hook, and more:

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Parallels Desktop is currently on 25% off for the next 9 days.

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Just flagging that if your purchase a new standalone (non-subscription) license of this, and they release a new version to deal with Apple’s new OS, based on my experience they will not give you the upgrade to the new version - even if it’s only a month or two later.

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VMWare is free for personal use, FWIW…

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As is VirtualBox. I’ve moved my VMs from Parallels to VirtualBox in the likelihood in the future I’ll need a Windows box to run my VMs.

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Unfortunately VirtualBox doesn’t work on M1 chips. I used it when I was still on Intel, though, and it was great.

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You can’t virtualize Intel VMs on an M1. I’ve moved the VMs from Parallels to VirtualBox expecting to at some time in the future purchasing a Windows computer to run the VMs.

If I could run the VMs on an M1 I’d run what ever it takes. Note that these are programs that require Windows 2000 or (in one case) Windows 7 so virtualization is a must.

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$39.99 for Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac 2021: Lifetime License

EDIT: this is a lifetime license for only this version (2021). It’s still a great deal since I have been using MS Office from 5 years ago and work great! I bought it for like $20 at that time

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Careful! It’s probably lifetime for that version of MS Office, which is not what most of us assume when we see the word lifetime.

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That’s exactly what it is. There was a similar offer back a ways. Still nit a bad deal, but people should be aware. :slight_smile:

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It lists for $249 so I’d say $40 is a nice deal.

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Yeah, no question. I bought it last time it was on sale for this price, and it works perfectly fine. As long as people aren’t expecting the upgrade to the next version, it’s a fantastic deal. :slight_smile:

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I updated my comment to be explicit in case someone doesn’t read the following comments

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Hook Productivity sale, 40% discount with coupon code. Running until 3rd July