Original MacBook with 2GB ram and 160 GB drive. I can't comment on the usefulness of Fusion because, as noted, I can't get XP to launch in it because XP keeps insisting I'm installing a single-user license on a second machine. Suffice to say, a modern, Intel-based Mac, Boot Camp, and Windows XP are a pretty good combination if you need to run both systems. Sorry, Rain, not trying to change the thread. (I'm working on a much better version in InDesign, but that's another story.) I whipped up our own version in BeLight's Swift Publisher and knocked the socks off the Publisher version. Oh, and don't get me started how every friggin' template they have set up for their agents is in MS Publisher - and how they can't understand how we don't love it. I guess if you're working with it every day, I'm just not seeing how to get things done but, man, I really hate when she needs to get something done. Doing the simplest things are just so profoundly un-intuitive. Got to say, running XP on the MacBook has reintroduced my wife (and me) to the horrors of Windows. I mean, I got the work done, so it was great in that regard, but it made me hate Windows even more.) (I used to run VirtualPC on a PowerBook ages ago, in order to run Lotus Notes at a client's. She routinely uses it at a number of office locations (she works for Coldwell Banker here in Central Arkansas) with no issues - after all, when you boot into Windows XP on the MacBook, you're running Windows XP there's no virtualization, it's "you are there".Ĭan't compare it to VirtualPC, because it isn't emulation. That said, Windows works great (or at least as great as Windows can) on her MacBook. (If someone has first hand experience with this, how do I get XP to run under Fusion, short of buying a second license for XP?) Right now she either boots into Mac, or into Windows. I got her Fusion, but have still not gone through the rigamarole of being able to run XP from within the Mac side. My wife has a MacBook running 10.4.11 and Windows XP (SP2). Lot by all possible means - except by getting off That I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his Him carry me, and yet assure myself and others I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making I like the Coherence mode in which the Windows desktop combines with the OS X desktop. I have been using Parallels and it has worked pretty darn well. MAVIC and a few others say Fusion is faster than Parallels for running Windows in virtualization. If it wasn't usable I wouldn't be doing it. From start to finish it takes about a week and a half. I use Quark 7 to put the magazine together. I do a 120 page monthly pub that was started on a PC and the publisher wants to keep it on a PC. I would stick with XP because I think Vista just adds too much overhead for the return. If the Windows apps are 2D you are purring right along. If you go the virtualization route You are running Windows at the same time you are running OS X. If you go the Bootcamp route you are basically running a Windows PC. Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion are available as downloadable demo ware, but they cost money if you want to use them for longer than one event.If you are comparing it to Virtual PC it is blazing fast. They all involve installing Windows from a CD. None of these options are things you would want to do in five minutes before starting a LAN party. You still need a copy of Windows, but you are not restricted to using SP2, SP3 or Vista. That will allow the Mac to dual boot, and it will turn the Mac into a straightforward PC when booted into Windows.Īlternatively you can use Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion to create a Virtual Machine running Windows alongside Mac OS X. You'll need an installation disk for XP SP2, SP3 or Vista, and the Mac will need OS X version 10.5. Windows can be installed by creating a Bootcamp Windows partition on the Mac's hard drive. If it's an older PowerBook then you *could* try to find an old copy of Microsoft's VirtualPC for Mac, but I wouldn't recommend it as Civ3 performance would be pretty awful. I assume that's what you intended by the term "parallel coherence", though I'm not familiar with the expression? This will only work if the Mac is a MacBook, running an Intel CPU. So the only way to play cross platform is to install Windows on the Mac and run the PC version of Civ3 in that. There is a different Mac-only protocol used on a LAN or via GameRanger, and that is not available for the PC version. Civ3 does not include the necessary communications protocol support to enable Mac-to-PC play in real time.
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