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Which windows apps do you NEED? (and with OSx86...will you dual boot to get it?)

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qtip919

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Ok,

So now that there is even the remote-est of possibilities that we will soon be able to get a good ol' MacBook and dual boot windows, the real question is: Which apps are making you go and crap all over a beautiful peice of hardware?


My list so far:

1. Outlook
2. Visio
3. Visual Studio
 
Outlook, Access, and Project. And no, I'm not the least bit interested in dual boot, there's no way I'm going to reboot just to check my mail :p
 
iMeowbot said:
Outlook, Access, and Project. And no, I'm not the least bit interested in dual boot, there's no way I'm going to reboot just to check my mail :p
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Really?

I only wish I could say that...

I need outside access to corp. exchange servers with calendar, contact, etc. information and there is NOTHING in the mac space to deal with this.

When I get home to do work, Outlook is something I am living within to do my work...it sucks, but that's what you get when your corporation lives and breathes Exchange 2003...

Entourage is a joke, it uses HTTP-DAV to communicate with Exchange and that's just about the worst idea possible (said the man who worked on it for 1 year :/
 
Nothing :D

I'm happily living a Mac-only life. On the other hand, if I can run Windows games, that'll be a plus :)
 
Just to be clear, I'd be all over a VMware or Wine thing that could run those programs, just not actually rebooting to get the job done.
 
Nermal said:
Nothing :D

I'm happily living a Mac-only life. On the other hand, if I can run Windows games, that'll be a plus :)
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hmm...didnt think about that...

I guess Ive been drinking the xbox kool-aid for too long...man I love my xbox+HDTV!!!
 
Two programs that I simply CANNOT find anything comparable to:

1) Irfanview
2) Adobe Audition

Although I wouldn't want to have to boot into another operating system in order to use them, it may be worth it, as (in my experience) they are irreplaceable.
 
Hm,

Access (purely because I have pre-existing databases in there)
Visual Studio (College course)


And yeah, as people say, games. But that's a side point, I'm quite happy with C&C Generals, and Worms 3D on my iMac for the moment ;)
 
Nero would be handy so that i can burn cue/mp3 files. Or someone could write an app to do it on osx (or just put it in toast please :))
 
-AutoCad (should start learning VectorWorks i guess)
-Explorer (to manage my photo's, i think this is much easier than iPhoto's storage method)
-Norton Antivirus :p
 
Dafke said:
-Explorer (to manage my photo's, i think this is much easier than iPhoto's storage method)
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I completely agree!

Being in Commercial Real Estate, I would Need ARGUS (industry Standard) and IE (Costar.com needs an IE certificate to log-in)
 
AutoCAD and Pro-E
there is no real engineering software for the mac (aside from math modeling programs) so i guess i should say there is no real engineering design programs which are widely used in industry for the mac. but i guess i would still run into some problems, one company i worked for had a special package for AutoCAD (which ran like $5000 per license) and to make sure the program is authentic it comes with a hardware key in the form of a parallel port attachment. (if the block isn't plugged into your parallel port then the program will not work) but i guess that really isnt much of a problem for me, cause i would never fork out $5000 just to be able to work on stuff at home. so if any future company i work for wants me to be able to work at home, then im sure they will provide me a computer with my $5000 software package! but anyway, on my own id still go for AutoCAD and/or Pro-E, id totally dual boot so i didn't have to go to the computer lab on campus to work on projects!
 
Windows apps that I need to get stuff done and/or use regularly:

Visual Studio
Winamp
XMPlay (has a Mac equivalent, but it isn't as good as XMPlay)
Silence Remover (not found a Mac equivalent for this yet)
WavePad (I'm sure there's a suitable Mac equivalent of this one, as it's just a WAV file editor).
 
Cursed be the legal world for relying on Windows so much:
- WordPerfect (would be nice if Corel hadn't dropped Mac support...)
- MS Word 2000 (in order to use a Law Review template with extensive VisualBasic scripting that is, really annoyingly, not compatible with MS Word 2004 Mac)
- ExamSoft SofTest (the most awful program ever, but I need it in order to take exams on the computer because my law school has standardized on ExamSoft. It boots up Windows and then -- as an anti-cheating measure -- locks you out of all functions except for the exam-taking environment, so it would be a violation of the academic code to run it in VirtualPC)
 
blackstone said:
Cursed be the legal world for relying on Windows so much:
- WordPerfect (would be nice if Corel hadn't dropped Mac support...)
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Corel was working on a Java-based version of WordPerfect that would have resturned the app to the Mac platform. However, it accepted a cash infusion for Microsoft afterwhich it dropped the project.
blackstone said:
- MS Word 2000 (in order to use a Law Review template with extensive VisualBasic scripting that is, really annoyingly, not compatible with MS Word 2004 Mac)
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Are you sure? My experience is that Word 2000 documents are often more compatible with the Mac than they are work with Word 2003.
blackstone said:
- ExamSoft SofTest (the most awful program ever, but I need it in order to take exams on the computer because my law school has standardized on ExamSoft. It boots up Windows and then -- as an anti-cheating measure -- locks you out of all functions except for the exam-taking environment, so it would be a violation of the academic code to run it in VirtualPC)
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Although I would not risk an honor code violation, the ExamSoft SofTest should still work on VPC.
 
MisterMe said:
Are you sure? My experience is that Word 2000 documents are often more compatible with the Mac than they are work with Word 2003.
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Yeah, the version of VB used in Word 2004 Mac doesn't include all of the same features as the version used in the Windows platform. It's one of those weird incompatibilities that only crops up in certain circumstances with really fancy scripting (this particular template adds a bunch of new menu items, dialog boxes than can only be launched by special key combinations, etc.). It's really frustrating... I've ended up just dedicating an old Dell box to running Word for Law Review stuff, and using RDP over SSH to log into it from my Powerbook.
 
eyeon said:
Two programs that I simply CANNOT find anything comparable to:

1) Irfanview
2) Adobe Audition

Although I wouldn't want to have to boot into another operating system in order to use them, it may be worth it, as (in my experience) they are irreplaceable.
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I agree with Irfanview... that is the best program ever. A port would be fantastic.
 
Some proprietary Windows-based apps for connecting to the company server :mad: and some occasional Access stuff, only because I already have years-old Access files that I've been too lazy to convert to MySQL or FileMaker. Also some website compatibility checking in IE & Firefox for Windows. Right now I'm fine with Virtual PC for those things and I happily do everything else in Mac OS X.

I will never want a dual-boot situation.
 
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