I run Win7 in Parallels on my MacBook Pro. Both OSs available at the same time. I do have to manually switch USB ports, but that's just a click.
73, Mike NF4L On Jun 1, 2014, at 7:46 PM, Phil Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > Be careful, Brian. I bought one for my cousin to use, an iBook, back in 2005. > He passed away before I was able to give it to him. I started using it just > to see what the fuss was all about. I was hooked -- and none of my MacBooks > have cost less than 2 kilobucks as outfitted. Beware :-) > > My main MacBook is dual-boot into Windows 7. There's just too much software I > use tethering me to the Windows world. > > 73, Phil W7OX > > On 6/1/14, 4:38 PM, Brian Alsop wrote: >> Guys, >> >> I apologize if my posting offended anybody. >> >> This is not such a far fetched question. In fact my son-in-law has such a >> household. It made video chats with our 4 year old grandson a real problem. >> He won't even use SKYPE and insists on FACETIME. >> >> So how was this resolved? He loaned me a 1 kilobuck MAC laptop.... >> Now we can do FACETIME too. >> >> 73 de Brian/K3KO >> >> >> On 6/1/2014 22:59, Scott Manthe wrote: >>> There should be no reason that Ted should have to borrow a PC in order >>> to update the firmware in his KAT500. The OSX utility should have the >>> same functionality as the Windows version. In any case, there's also no >>> reason he should have to put up with a lack of courtesy when asking a >>> question on the reflector. >>> >>> Ted- Did you try searching for the firmware manually? >>> >>> 73, >>> Scott, N9AA >>> >>> >>> On 6/1/14 6:35 PM, Brian Alsop wrote: >>>> Are WINDOWS PC's banned from your household? >>>> >>>> Certainly you know somebody who owns a WINDOW's laptop. >>>> >>>> If the situation were reversed and I needed an APPLE computer for a >>>> few minutes to install new firmware, I'd beg or borrow one. >>>> >>>> 73 de Brian/K3KO >>>> >>>> On 6/1/2014 22:28, Dauer, Edward wrote: >>>>> The current firmware version for the KAT500 is apparently MCU 1.67. >>>>> To access it requires the KAT500 Utility version 14.2.20. That, >>>>> however, seems to be available only for Windows. The latest utility >>>>> version for Mac OS X on the website is 1.14.2.1. When I run that, >>>>> the latest firmware version it finds is 1.41. Unfortunately 1.41 >>>>> seems not to give the KAT500 the capability of tracking the frequency >>>>> setting from the K3 as it tunes - with F/W 1.41 retunes only on the >>>>> first dit. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to get 1.67 >>>>> using a Mac (short of installing Windows on the Mac)? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for whatever advice might be offered . . . >>>>> >>>>> Ted, KN1CBR >>> >>> ______ > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
