Thank you, everyone for your feedback. I now feel comfortable that Legacy would work on a Mac. Whether or not I can make the leap psychologically (?) is another question. I'm a former Compaq employee...!
I do appreciate your including the emulation sw suggestions & experiences, as well as the memory and processor speed. --Paula in Texas ________________________________ From: Robert Runion <sarge1...@cox.net> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wed, February 8, 2012 1:15:50 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Apple question I run Legacy on a 24" iMAC with Parallels 6 running Windows 7. It works just fine and allows moving from Windows to MAC with minimal problems. The only aggravating thing I've encountered is the slow response printing from Windows - of course in this day of instant gratification,, it does work, just slower than I would like. :-) Bob On Feb 8, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Ron Taylor wrote: Paula, >I run Legacy daily on my Macbook Pro under Parallels and Windows XP Pro SP3. I >haven't tried it with Windows 7 yet but it runs great with this configuration. >I can't speak for those who have used other virtual machine software on their >macs but those should work also. The key is to have sufficient memory to allow >the virtual environment to execute the Windows programs as well as the >underlying OSX. >Ron Taylor > > >--- On Wed, 2/8/12, Paula Ryburn <paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > >>From: Paula Ryburn <paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net> >>Subject: [LegacyUG] Apple question >>To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >>Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 8:41 AM >> >> >>This may be silly, but I am about to get a new computer, and my friends who >>are >>offering an opinion say "Apple!" - has anyone hear experienced issues running >>Legacy on an Apple/Mac ? >>Thanks, >> --Paula in Texas >>Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman >>Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field >>Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes >>Hurdle >>Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche >>Ryburn >>Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams >> >> >> >> >>Legacy User Group guidelines: >>http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >>Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >>http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >>Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >>http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ >>Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >>Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on >>our >>blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). >>To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp >> > >Legacy User Group guidelines: >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ >Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our >blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). >To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp >Windows Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
