Barry - Perhaps I'm being a luddite, but Bootcamp facillitates a dual boot and provides windows with a suitable driver base for the hardware so you can install windows. What exactly would be being emulated?
I have difficulty imagining what an App might be doing that would make it run with everything on windows unless that windows install was on hardware also capable of running a mac. On Nov 16, 2007 11:18 PM, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sadly no. > > these particullar apps (from what I can work out), are not only made > just for Windows, but call down heavily into the hardware. It's the > emulation that they don't work with. > > they may in fact work in a fashion under emulation on an Intel Mac, > but it comes with no guarentee, and I can't afford the risk. > > > > > > > On 11/16/07, AJ Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Barry, > > > > Have you seen Parallels or bootcamp on the Mac? > > > > Would having windows (XP) like this for those Adobe apps be a good enough > > solution? > > > > > > On Nov 16, 2007 4:47 PM, Andrew Scott < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Yes it can > > > > > > > > > On 11/16/07, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I've been looking at turning over my laptop for a new one soon ... > > > > > > > > .. but due to a couple of key Adobe applications that are Windows only > > > > and don't seem to work on an Intel Mac, I may have to say goodbye to > > > > OS X. Shame. > > > > > > > > Sure Windows XP is still available but to be honest, for future > > > > proofing, it probably makes more sense to get a laptop with Vista. > > > > > > > > the trouble is, everytime someone shows me Vista's swish UI and > > > > desktop, I just want to vomit! > > > > > > > > I'm not at all interested in swooshy interfaces. A decent file > > > > manager, drag and drop and plug'n'pray is all I really need to cut > > > > code and get stuff happening. > > > > > > > > For all you vista users, can the over-the-top Vista "chrome" be turned > > > > off so it's just a plane-jane O/S? The first thing I do with a WinXP > > > > install it to turn it into Windows "Classic". I don't mean I want to > > > > be using one of the cripple-ware stripped down versions of Vista, just > > > > that I can't see the point in having some fancy piece of rubbish > > > > hogging resources. > > > > > > > > if it wasn't for the "Windows problem", I'd probably just use FreeBSD > > and KDE... > > > > > > > > thoughts? > > > > thanx > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > Senior Coldfusion Developer > > > Aegeon Pty. Ltd. > > > www.aegeon.com.au > > > Phone: +613 8676 4223 > > > Mobile: 0404 998 273 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > AJ Mercer > > Web Log: http://webonix.net > > > > > > > > > > > -- Cheers Sean Bucklar [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
