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Windows on Mac?
2008-04-11, 5:20 PM #1
How do you get Windows programs to run on a Mac? Is there an easier way than installing Windows (if that's even possible)?
COUCHMAN IS BACK BABY
2008-04-11, 5:24 PM #2
Virtual machine if the application doesn't have a Mac version

Or boot camp it as a last resort
2008-04-11, 5:39 PM #3
I tried cross over and that was alright.
Parallels though is amazing.

You have to install windows on another partition, but its worth it.
[01:52] <~Nikumubeki> Because it's MBEGGAR BEGS LIKE A BEGONI.
2008-04-11, 8:41 PM #4
Need Intel Mac.
2008-04-11, 8:52 PM #5
VMWare fusion and parallels are great.
"If you watch television news, you will know less about the world than if you just drink gin straight out of the bottle."
--Garrison Keillor
2008-04-11, 9:45 PM #6
Originally posted by Rob:
Need Intel Mac.


VirtualPC by Microsoft works well on PowerPC Macs.
2008-04-12, 9:37 AM #7
Yeah, this would be one of the newer Intel Macs.
COUCHMAN IS BACK BABY
2008-04-12, 2:51 PM #8
Originally posted by Big T:
VirtualPC by Microsoft works well on PowerPC Macs.


youre still alive!
gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2008-04-12, 11:15 PM #9
i've found crossover to be the best.

parallels and vmware dont play half life 2 and such as well (or at all) for me as they do on crossover. bootcamp is the best option.

if you're gonna buy a real windows disc to run windows on your mac, don't waste your 1 or 2 serial uses on VMware or parallels. you lose so much performance when you have both OS's running. it's best to just install windows and be able to use it by itself, if you're going for hardware/graphics intense applications.
2008-04-12, 11:27 PM #10
Or if you need to use windows that friggin bad.. just you know. Get a PC.
2008-04-13, 6:35 AM #11
Originally posted by Rob:
Or if you need to use windows that friggin bad.. just you know. Get a PC.


Or get a mac since macbooks are pretty much the best laptops :p

Crossover is pretty much required if you want to do serious gaming. However, Parallels is far better for everything else. I use it to run Office 2007, Zune, Media Center, etc.
2008-04-13, 7:33 AM #12
Originally posted by NoESC:
youre still alive!


Yay! :eng101:
2008-04-13, 8:08 AM #13
Thanks guys, I'll check that stuff out. Getting a PC is definately out of the question, I can't afford or justify two new computers.
COUCHMAN IS BACK BABY
2008-04-13, 10:07 AM #14
Originally posted by Big T:
Yay! :eng101:


/HUMPS!
2008-04-13, 12:10 PM #15
Originally posted by Big T:
Yay! :eng101:


<3!
gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2008-04-13, 12:11 PM #16
If you load Windows in Boot Camp, you can still boot it from VMWare. Best of both worlds.. :D
gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2008-04-13, 1:36 PM #17
Originally posted by Cool Matty:
Or get a mac since macbooks are pretty much the best laptops :p

Except for having the highest failure rate! :v:
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2008-04-13, 1:40 PM #18
Pfft. All industry insiders know that having a high rate of failure is the easiest way to post better market penetration numbers.
2008-04-13, 1:56 PM #19
Tee hee.

Penetration.

<.<
>.>

(I have to deal with people talking seriously about partial and full penetration butt welds on a daily basis)
2008-04-13, 2:04 PM #20
in the butt
gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2008-04-13, 2:16 PM #21
Originally posted by Big T:
Yay! :eng101:

Goddamn. Was wondering when you'd get your mad cow *** back here. >:
D E A T H
2008-04-13, 2:28 PM #22
Originally posted by Martyn:
(I have to deal with people talking seriously about partial and full penetration butt welds on a daily basis)

I'd probably kill myself
2008-04-13, 10:17 PM #23
Gussets, butt straps and flanges too.

Oh, and the lip is typically 20% of the size of the flange.
D:
2008-04-14, 4:59 AM #24
Originally posted by NoESC:
in the butt

What, what?
Sorry for the lousy German
2008-04-14, 7:04 PM #25
Originally posted by Martyn:
/HUMPS!


/ENJOYS

:awesome:

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