1. | You have to buy two systems (or hack the second one) |
2. | You need more disk space |
3. | You have to setup two systems |
4. | You may need two licenses for some applications |
5. | You'll get problems if you try to use you user data on both systems |
On OSX I could simply setup different admin users, who can configure their own sets of preferences (networking interfaces, printers/scanners, CoreAudio/MIDI devices and so on). Switching users is a matter of some seconds.
But I think the main reason for not supporting hardware profiles in Win7 anymore is the fact that most external hardware should be plug/play compatible today and because of that you don't have to restart Win and load a driver every time you change your hardware.
Thanks for the advice!
Sounds easy. Is it possible to configure services in the same manner? And what about storing userfiles on a second hard drive?