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The hunger for an Apple-Windows dual boot

Started by mathewi · 10 months ago

I must admit that the first thing I thought of when the big Apple-Intel announcement came out was: “Great — now maybe I can have an Intel machine that will dual boot Windows and OS X!” Obviously I’m not alone, since one of the big debates after M ... Continue reading »

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  • Brian

    3 years ago

    There is VirtualPC - http://www.apple.com/macosx/applications/virtua...

    There are others - some inexpensive, some open source. I have a mild itch to test these - the one thing I miss from my Windows laptop is the abilty to play Civ2 - but have not done so yet.
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  • Mathew

    3 years ago

    Thanks for the comment Brian.

    I tried VirtualPC once on a friend's high-powered laptop, but it was so slow that it was almost unusable. I've tried several open-source emulators such as Wine, Cedega (for games) and Crossover Office for Linux, and they all leave a little to be desired when it comes to ease of use and functionality. I keep hoping that someday emulation will be almost as good as the real thing, but so far it's not quite there.
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  • Brian

    3 years ago

    Oh you wanted something usable. There is just no pleasing some people (grin).
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  • Mathew

    3 years ago

    :-)
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  • Rob Hyndman

    3 years ago

    The TWIT podcast guys recently suggested that with windows on the box you could run windows apps from within Mac OSX. Hmmm ....

    Shiny new look here - cool.
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  • Mathew

    3 years ago

    that would be sweet -- provided there wasn't a huge amount of lag, that is.

    as for the new look, i was inspired by your redesign :-)

    but i couldn't afford to pay anyone to redo my site, so i picked up a
    new wordpress theme and hacked around with it a bit. a change is as
    good as a rest, my grandfather used to say
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