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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > >
