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Re: The hunger for an Apple-Windows dual boot

Mathew — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:08:54 -0000

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

Re: The hunger for an Apple-Windows dual boot

Rob Hyndman — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:22:37 -0000

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.

Re: The hunger for an Apple-Windows dual boot

Mathew — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:38:00 -0000

:-)

Re: The hunger for an Apple-Windows dual boot

Brian — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:36:45 -0000

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

Re: The hunger for an Apple-Windows dual boot

Mathew — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:09:08 -0000

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.

Re: The hunger for an Apple-Windows dual boot

Brian — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:59:44 -0000

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.