<p dir="ltr">Wine runs on a Mac for free, and for a while I ran a small consultancy from a Mac running Virtual box and XP. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Seconding getting a drive or some sort of network resource to do Time Machine. It's really great when it just works. It's a bear when it doesn't, though; it's a tangle of folders and hard links and OS X file attributes. I wish there were something that simple for Linux; snapshot is good but fiddly. </p>
<p dir="ltr">(Talking of, file attributes are a big thing on OS X, but not so much on desktop Linux. You will get bitten by the Quarantine attribute - anything you download has it set, and even chmod +x won't get around it - and a couple of minutes reading about xattr(1) will be useful.)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers<br>
Stewart</p>