sadly no. these particullar apps (from what I can work out), are not only made just for Windows, but call down heavily into the hardware. It's the emulation that they don't work with.
they may in fact work in a fashion under emulation on an Intel Mac, but it comes with no guarentee, and I can't afford the risk. On 11/16/07, AJ Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Barry, > > Have you seen Parallels or bootcamp on the Mac? > > Would having windows (XP) like this for those Adobe apps be a good enough > solution? > > > On Nov 16, 2007 4:47 PM, Andrew Scott < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes it can > > > > > > On 11/16/07, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I've been looking at turning over my laptop for a new one soon ... > > > > > > .. but due to a couple of key Adobe applications that are Windows only > > > and don't seem to work on an Intel Mac, I may have to say goodbye to > > > OS X. Shame. > > > > > > Sure Windows XP is still available but to be honest, for future > > > proofing, it probably makes more sense to get a laptop with Vista. > > > > > > the trouble is, everytime someone shows me Vista's swish UI and > > > desktop, I just want to vomit! > > > > > > I'm not at all interested in swooshy interfaces. A decent file > > > manager, drag and drop and plug'n'pray is all I really need to cut > > > code and get stuff happening. > > > > > > For all you vista users, can the over-the-top Vista "chrome" be turned > > > off so it's just a plane-jane O/S? The first thing I do with a WinXP > > > install it to turn it into Windows "Classic". I don't mean I want to > > > be using one of the cripple-ware stripped down versions of Vista, just > > > that I can't see the point in having some fancy piece of rubbish > > > hogging resources. > > > > > > if it wasn't for the "Windows problem", I'd probably just use FreeBSD > and KDE... > > > > > > thoughts? > > > thanx > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > Senior Coldfusion Developer > > Aegeon Pty. Ltd. > > www.aegeon.com.au > > Phone: +613 8676 4223 > > Mobile: 0404 998 273 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > AJ Mercer > Web Log: http://webonix.net > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
