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Virtual PC question

Jan 16, 2006 12:39AM PST

I'm looking at buying one of Apples new Mac Book Pro
laptop computers. It has the new Intel dual channel processor. My question is, will Virtual PC for Mac
run on this new machine. Appreciate your help because the Apple sales man was not sure and recommended that I not buy one of the new ones because he wasn't sure. ??
Thanks OB

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A new version will arrive., But I don't know when.
Jan 16, 2006 12:57AM PST

This is one of those "stay tuned" areas.

Bob

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MacBook Pro
Jan 16, 2006 5:49AM PST

...Or maybe we will see someone able to ''crack'' the MacBook Pro and have a dual boot machine OSX / XP. If not i think emulation should be faster since we are not going from PPC to x86.

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Just as a matter of interest
Jan 16, 2006 8:23AM PST

Do you need VPC for something really special, something that is not available on the Mac or are you thinking about games?

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Maybe Of Interest
Jan 16, 2006 9:17PM PST

No I don't do games. I have five or six programs that won't run on the MAC. Am upgrading from a G-3 desktop to a power book pro, for the portability.

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PC programs
Jan 16, 2006 10:27PM PST

5 or 6 seems to be a lot of PC programs for a Mac user. I guess this must be some sort of proprietary software for your work


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5 or 6 programs
Jan 17, 2006 12:45AM PST

Yes I run the below programs that are only ported to a PC.

Life forms,..Medical condition, diet history.
Woodturner Pro.. 3d woodturning design program.
Woodturning Studio..Open Segment woodturning design program.
Dr Dans... Fishing and hunting probability program
Loran/GPS program.. for GPS fishing spot mapping.

As you can tell I try and stay fit, do woodturning and like to fish. With the laptop I can take it with me to fish and or out in the shop to do woodturning.

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That answers that question
Jan 17, 2006 8:41AM PST

Hopefully MS will gear up to the Intel version or at least produce a Universal Binary version of VPC shortly

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VPC under rosetta?
Jan 18, 2006 10:21AM PST

Would VPC run under Rosetta?

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Possibly
Jan 18, 2006 8:42PM PST

The only programs that, apparently, do not run under Rosetta are those that use the Altivec part of the G4/G5 processor

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question on interface between Mac and XP
Jan 21, 2006 1:15AM PST

I use one piece of software for my work, called Trados, that only runs on PCs, and I need to seamlessly go back and forth between Trados and my Mac at the click of a mouse, which is possible right now, thanks to Virtual PC.

In case Virtual PC is abandoned on the new Mac Book, and I have to install XP on the same drive as Tiger on the new Mac Book in order to use Trados, would I be able to go back and forth and cut and paste seamlessly between Trados and Word on Tiger? (I don't want to use Word on a PC; the less I use XP the better I feel, plus I absolutely need colored folders, etc., which are not available in XP). If going back and forth seamlessly between the 2 environments is not possible, what could be done?

Thanks,

Capitaine Haddock

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VPC and MacBook
Jan 21, 2006 3:31AM PST

VPC is not going away and you are not putting XP onto the current MacBooks and having it work.
However, looking at your scenario , the answer to your question is "who knows"
Currently VPC on a Windows box allows the user to switch between various WIndows OS's, reasonably seamlessly.
There is no reason to suggest that the same would not be true if you are able to get XP to boot on the Macbook. Remember, the Macbook does not use a BIOS which XP requires to boot correctly


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