Just wondering what others run besides OS X? I obviously spend more time in OS X, but also have Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 8.1 Enterprise with EFI boot. OS X-wise, I run 10.6.8, 10.8.5, and 10.9.
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What OS do you run besides OS X on your Mac Pro
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pastrychef
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I have OS X 10.9 on my SSD and Windows 8 Bootcamped on another drive. While I have Windows 8 Bootcamped, I primarily run it in Vmware Fusion and my primary reason for having Windows installed at all is for an app called Newsbin Pro.
I managed to get in on the Microsoft mistake where they were handing out Windows 8 licenses for free, so I said, "what the heck"...
I managed to get in on the Microsoft mistake where they were handing out Windows 8 licenses for free, so I said, "what the heck"...
jetjaguar
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newsbin pro is the best usenet program .. wish they had a mac version .. what i miss most about windows
pastrychef
macrumors 601
Agreed. There's nothing that comes close to Newsbin. Hopefully, as Macs become more popular, the devs will make a Mac version and I can leave Windows forever.
Fastsavage
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OS X 10.8.5 on my Intel SSD plus Windows 7 on a separate drive but run through Parallels, just for those occasions when you need windows....I'm trying to learn Solidworks - no Mac version for that...
cal6n
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My Bootcamp "Windows" points to a Grub boot loader at the root of a separate HDD, where I can select either Windows 7 or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. It was easy to set up initially but there were problems when I moved OS X to a home-made Fusion Drive. Grub can't understand what a Fusion Drive is and will sit and sulk forever if it encounters one while probing for non-Linux OSs. I ended up manually adding my Windows 7 to the Grub config file and turning off the prober.
I used to have my GID/UIDs set so that both OS X and Linux had full access to my OS X account but Fusion Drive broke that. Now I use Dropbox or a separate scratch disc for working across OSs. If I don't need full GPU acceleration in Linux, then I use 12.04 LTS via Virtual Box, again with the UID/GIDs tweaked.
Windows is only there for the odd occasion when I have to play a game that's not available on OS X.
I used to have my GID/UIDs set so that both OS X and Linux had full access to my OS X account but Fusion Drive broke that. Now I use Dropbox or a separate scratch disc for working across OSs. If I don't need full GPU acceleration in Linux, then I use 12.04 LTS via Virtual Box, again with the UID/GIDs tweaked.
Windows is only there for the odd occasion when I have to play a game that's not available on OS X.
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gavinstubbs09
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For me (when I get mine, very very soon) I'll have Mavericks on the main drive and either Win7 or 8 as bootcamp. My reasoning for that is Visual Studio 2010 programming for Windows apps (I could virtualbox this or something but native is so much nicer).
crjackson2134
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mikeboss
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have you tried "NZBVortex" on OS X? It does all it needs to do (at least for me). It's available in the Mac App Store.
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pastrychef
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mikeboss
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there seems to be a demoversion available for download, too ->
http://www.nzbvortex.com/downloads/NZBVortex.dmg
jetjaguar
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how is running windows through parallels .. i used it once a few years ago and hated it but it seems it has gotten much better now. The only things I want to do in windows is use newsbin pro .. maybe game a but on steam .. and if I need to update a device that can only use windows
4,1 flashed to 5,1 Mac Pro
10.9 and Windows 7 Boot Camp
VirtualBox
Windows 2008 Server for Blue Iris Security SOftware
3 Ubuntu VM's for Webserver and other things.
10.9 and Windows 7 Boot Camp
VirtualBox
Windows 2008 Server for Blue Iris Security SOftware
3 Ubuntu VM's for Webserver and other things.
crjackson2134
macrumors 601
It works great, it's slightly faster than VMWare fusion 5/6. The interface is more responsive. It supports DirectX / Draw etc. at version 10.xxx
I have Windows 7 installed on an additional SSD. I also have Windows 98 and XP for playing old games running under Parallels.
D.T.
macrumors G4
Win7, Win2K8 Server, Ubuntu, CentOS
I mostly use the Win7 VM for doing some .NET dev work, the server VMs for doing a little pre-config check, etc, but most of my dev work (Ruby/Rails, Python) bound for Linux I just do on native OSX.
I'm using Parallels 8, works terrific.
SABNZBD is pretty outstanding on OSX, if you just want to deal with NZBs and binary files. It's pretty neat, it's a service that runs, and the UI is handled through a web/browser interface (so you can check the status from any machine via a browser). Very actively developed (it's written in Python), and has some slick automation possibilities (I'm scripted to handle end-to-end, pretty cool), auto unarchive, validity check on downloads, etc.
http://sabnzbd.org
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I mostly use the Win7 VM for doing some .NET dev work, the server VMs for doing a little pre-config check, etc, but most of my dev work (Ruby/Rails, Python) bound for Linux I just do on native OSX.
I'm using Parallels 8, works terrific.
SABNZBD is pretty outstanding on OSX, if you just want to deal with NZBs and binary files. It's pretty neat, it's a service that runs, and the UI is handled through a web/browser interface (so you can check the status from any machine via a browser). Very actively developed (it's written in Python), and has some slick automation possibilities (I'm scripted to handle end-to-end, pretty cool), auto unarchive, validity check on downloads, etc.
http://sabnzbd.org
😎