Re: Run WinOS (and FM) on a MAC OS X

[Samuel C Kennedy/AC/VCU <skennedy -at- vcu -dot- edu>]

You can do this in a few ways.  The first is Bootcamp which is nice but 
overall a bit of a pain to have to reboot you computer to run Windows. 
Parallels is available now for Mac OS X and does let you run Windows in a 
either a window or in fullscreen mode.  It works very, very well.  We have 
a Oracle base app that is pretty picky and it runs like a dream in it. 
VMWare's product was announced today and will be out in the coming weeks 
as a beta.  Codeweavers is developing a product called Crossover that 
would run some Windows applications without a copy of Windows on your Mac. 
 Unlike VMWare and Parallels which run a copy of Windows on your Mac and 
should run most any Windows application, Crossover has to be configured 
for an application before it will run.  They plan to have most of the MS 
apps ready when they go to beta later this month as well as others.  I use 
Parallels but I am really interested in the Codeweavers product.  Here are 
some links for more information:

Parallels: http://www.parallels.com/
Codeweavers: http://www.codeweavers.com/
VMWare: http://www.vmware.com/


All must be running on an Intel Mac in order to work.  Older Macs with 
PowerPC chips will not work with these solutions.

Sam






Sam Kennedy
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Re: Run WinOS (and FM) on a MAC OS X






The difference is that with VMWare, you can run your Mac OS, run a
windows window, run a window with linux, maybe UNIX, and have them
all running together and dragging/dropping between all open 
windows...no rebooting. I haven't seen it yet and not running Mac, I
couldn't if I wanted to, but that's the word.

--- Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com> wrote:

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>    If that's true, then I'm replacing my maturing Windows-based
> systems;
>    however, the word I heard was it uses an Intel processor and it
> can run
>    Windows, but you have to download a freebie dual-boot program
> and buy your
>    own copy of Windows.  I hope you're right and I'm wrong.
>    Al
>    [1]obair81 -at- comcast -dot- net wrote:
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> I read a rumor that other day that the coming Mac OS, 10.5, will be
> able to run
>  windows-based apps without windows.
> 
> Paul
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