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I think there is something called Boot Camp that allows Apple PCs to run
Windows apps.


It's my understanding that Boot Camp allows Apple PCs to run the Windows
OS, and along with it, Windows apps. Apples, at least some of them, are
now Intel based, but, apparently, run a different BIOS that Windows
doesn't support. Boot Camp just allows you to dual boot. There is also
Parallels, which will run Windows inside a virtual machine, so you can
run the Mac OS and Windows at the same time.



Yep... you have to reboot to use it. But, there are plenty of emulators out
there that work side-by-side with MacOS.

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Yep... you have to reboot to use it. But, there are plenty of
emulators out there that work side-by-side with MacOS.

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We could save a couple of thousand dollars and boot my Samsung NC10 netbook
to WinXP....Apple OS X.....Linux and not need to run all the apple
emulator crapware to drag everything down. Here's the video of the OS X
netbook. $410 delivered at Costcentral.com!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HckW...eature=related

Fantastic little netbook....NO GLOSSY SCREEN is a pleasure to watch!!

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Yep... you have to reboot to use it. But, there are plenty of
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We could save a couple of thousand dollars and boot my Samsung NC10
netbook
to WinXP....Apple OS X.....Linux and not need to run all the apple
emulator crapware to drag everything down. Here's the video of the OS X
netbook. $410 delivered at Costcentral.com!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HckW...eature=related

Fantastic little netbook....NO GLOSSY SCREEN is a pleasure to watch!!



Nice, but you still have to boot into what you want right? The emulation I
have allows you to switch back and forth on the fly and you can share data
back and forth. I don't find it to drag it much, but it's a desktop box. I'm
not sure why I would need to switch back and forth either with boot or
emulation if I had it on my boat. Seems to me, I'd be on one or the other,
depending on what runs natively.

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Nice, but you still have to boot into what you want right? The
emulation I have allows you to switch back and forth on the fly and
you can share data back and forth. I don't find it to drag it much,
but it's a desktop box. I'm not sure why I would need to switch back
and forth either with boot or emulation if I had it on my boat. Seems
to me, I'd be on one or the other, depending on what runs natively.



My poor little Atom N270 1.6Ghz 1MB RAM 2 pound netbook isn't OS magic....

Yeah, on 1GB of RAM you only run one OS at a time....

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Nice, but you still have to boot into what you want right? The
emulation I have allows you to switch back and forth on the fly and
you can share data back and forth. I don't find it to drag it much,
but it's a desktop box. I'm not sure why I would need to switch back
and forth either with boot or emulation if I had it on my boat. Seems
to me, I'd be on one or the other, depending on what runs natively.



My poor little Atom N270 1.6Ghz 1MB RAM 2 pound netbook isn't OS magic....

Yeah, on 1GB of RAM you only run one OS at a time....



I just booted up my Virtual PC emulator on my Windoz box. I use it very,
very rarely to test suspect software. It's actually not bad. Oh, so my
point... I only have 1 gig of ram. It's a fairly old system... P4, 3.06 gh.

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Nice, but you still have to boot into what you want right? The
emulation I have allows you to switch back and forth on the fly and
you can share data back and forth. I don't find it to drag it much,
but it's a desktop box. I'm not sure why I would need to switch back
and forth either with boot or emulation if I had it on my boat. Seems
to me, I'd be on one or the other, depending on what runs natively.


My poor little Atom N270 1.6Ghz 1MB RAM 2 pound netbook isn't OS magic....

Yeah, on 1GB of RAM you only run one OS at a time....



I just booted up my Virtual PC emulator on my Windoz box. I use it very,
very rarely to test suspect software. It's actually not bad. Oh, so my
point... I only have 1 gig of ram. It's a fairly old system... P4, 3.06 gh.



Only 1 gig? "640k ought to be enough for anyone",, Lordy, when I went
to college if we had a machine with a full kilobyte we were doing well....

Cheers
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On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:12:31 -0400, Marty wrote:

Only 1 gig? "640k ought to be enough for anyone",, Lordy, when I went
to college if we had a machine with a full kilobyte we were doing well....


Iowa State built a computer from scratch, in 1948, and in 65 it was
the first box students used. It had 1k in the form of charged spots on
vacuum tube cathodes. Eight bits, one byte, per tube.

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On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:58:04 -0600, Vic Smith wrote:


I think there is something called Boot Camp that allows Apple PCs to run
Windows apps.


It's my understanding that Boot Camp allows Apple PCs to run the Windows
OS, and along with it, Windows apps. Apples, at least some of them, are
now Intel based, but, apparently, run a different BIOS that Windows
doesn't support. Boot Camp just allows you to dual boot. There is also
Parallels, which will run Windows inside a virtual machine, so you can
run the Mac OS and Windows at the same time.



Yep... you have to reboot to use it. But, there are plenty of emulators out
there that work side-by-side with MacOS.


The problem is that none of the emulators allow you to run ALL of the
other guy's software. Wine, for example allows Linux machines to run
some Windows software as does the Apple emulator. Any foreign software
that directly accesses hardware, use a dongle, or any other fancy anti
theft devices, won't run under the emulator.

Cheers,

Bruce
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Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
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The problem is that none of the emulators allow you to run ALL of the
other guy's software. Wine, for example allows Linux machines to run
some Windows software as does the Apple emulator. Any foreign software
that directly accesses hardware, use a dongle, or any other fancy anti
theft devices, won't run under the emulator.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)



The other emulator problem is INPUT and OUTPUT.....something always doesn't
work just right.....ports, audio, video, etc.....

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