I recently acquired a new iMac, pumped up the memory
to 3GB, and with VMware Fusion, a recent release, run
both WinXP Home Edition and Ubuntu (a Linux for the
faint of heart). All run beautifully. Indeed, I would
suggest that Windows runs better on this Mac than it
ever did on any PC I have owned. Thanks to the
superior Mac graphics, it looks gorgeous too.
Apple is seeing a surge in its sales, largely abetted
by the likes of me. I have always liked and admired
the Macintosh, but have been tethered to the Windows
world. Learning about things like Fusion, Parallels,
and Apple Boot Camp inspired me to finally get a Mac.
I have always had some frustrations with each new
Windows computer I have owned. The transition to Mac
has been painless.
I am not a developer, but I think it behooves Windows
developers, like those who contribute to this Forum,
to be aware Macs can now run Windows too.
Les
--- "Glenn B. Lawler" < gblawler%40incodesystems.com">gblawler
incodesystems.com>
wrote:
> >How do you even manage to run a D5 Windows
> application on a Mac system
> >anyways? Is that even possible and if yes, how?
>;
> The Mac has had more than one version of emulation
> software that lets you
> run the Windows OS under Mac OS.
>
> Microsoft has had Virtual PC out for a number of
> years (free software you can
> download directly from Microsoft), which lets you
> install an entirely different
> versions of Windows, or DOS, or Linux on your
>; machine. These Virtual PC's
>; can then be run in a window (or full screen) at the
> same time you are running
> the host OS. I have had to use Virtual PC in order
> to migrate to Vista. There is
> still a lot of software I need to run that will not
> run under Vista, but the software
> runs fine in a Virtual PC running under Vista.
>
> VMWare is a company that specializes in this kind of
> thing. They sell commercial
> software that lets companies with a large number of
> servers to run them in virtual
> mode unders a much smaller number of higher power
> boxes. They also offer a free
>; version of VMWare that runs under Linux to all Linux
> users to install and run
> Windows under Linux. We will probably see a lot of
> major moves to virtualization
> in the near future. This technology offers a lot of
> potential to eliminate backward
> compatibility issues which almost always follow OS
> updates.
>
> Glenn Lawler
> www.incodesystems.com
>
>
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