Kevin,
I ran into a number of areas that caused some real problems. One was
trying to use a virtual serial port on one Mac mini and the other had a
problem with the network interface. None of this was a problem with
Windows. Running PowerSDR for a Flex3000 was initially a problem as the
Firewire driver needed something that Apple didn't have. It would have
been significantly easier to have set up on a PC with Firewire.
73,
Barry
K3NDM
------ Original Message ------
From: "kevino z" <[email protected]>
To: "Brian Denley" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Barry LaZar" <[email protected]>; "Randy Cook" <[email protected]>;
[email protected]
Sent: 1/5/2016 10:33:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] suggested PC???
Yeah, another Mac user here that easily runs most Windows apps in a VM
when needed. I have also used boot camp when the app is critical, for
example SDR#. I can not understand the statement that Bootcamp has
driver issues as when you run the Bootcamp assistant, it has the
drivers put on an memory stick. But either way, when you run BootCamp,
Windows just sees an intel based machine, no different than if it was a
non Apple hardware device.
I have yet to come across one single ham radio tool / app that didn't
run flawlessly in either Parallel's running a Win 7 VM, or as stated
above, Bootcamp.
I will state the obvious, when in the Windows side, you are still
vulnerable to all of the attacks typically going after MS, Adobe,
etc...
Not an endorsement for Apple, but I hate when folks do not recommend a
Mac when they probably have never owned one.
-Kevin (KK4YEL)
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On Jan 5, 2016, at 22:04, Brian Denley <[email protected]> wrote:
My i7 iMac runs Windows 7 as well as OSX. With 32 Gb of memory, I
can run any Windows or Apple applications. I don't have a K3 but the
iMac runs my K2 and FT-950 applications with no issues whatsoever. I
can upgrade to Win 10 for free but I dislike it very much.
Brian
KB1VBF
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 5, 2016, at 9:26 PM, Barry LaZar <[email protected]> wrote:
Randy,
I seriously do not recommend this approach. I have been working
with a friend who has been working on a Mac Mini, actually he has
two. He has been trying to do an integrated station using HRD,
FLDIGI, and a few other things. These are Windows based and he has
been using Boot Camp to get to Windows. He discovered that there are
driver issues and a few other things the prevent easy set up to do
what he wants. And to compound the insult, his second Mac Mini does
does not set up like his first.
Most of the really good software that makes for full integration
easy has been written for a Windows platform. As this is the case, I
suggest an I5 with lots of memory running Windows 10. In the end,
this is cost effective and will keep your blood pressure in bounds.
As an illustration, I run Win4K3 for radio control and spectrum
display, Com0com for port replication, Hamradio Deluxe for general
logging and uploading to eQSL and LoTW, CW Skimmer. I switch out CW
Skimmer for FLDIGI, and during a contest, I use N1MM+ in place of
HRD. My experience has taught me to not use an Apple base system for
this situation. However, there are other collections of S/W, but I
expect the integration my not be as easy.
73,
Barry
K3NDM
------ Original Message ------
From: "Randy Cook" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: 1/5/2016 8:35:48 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] suggested PC???
Consider an Apple Mac. On the Apple website, you can get a iMac or
MacBook Air ‘refurbished’. After years of dealing with viruses,
blown updates, buggy software, etc. on work computers, I come home
to a 5 year old MacBook Air machine that just works and will
probably run forever. I like MacLoggerDX for station
control/logging, but others have their favorite.
As to value, I just sold an iMac desktop machine that my son didn’t
need anymore. He is at college and has a laptop. It was 6 years old
and I got 40% of the price I paid new for it on eBay. If it were a 6
year old PC, I would have had to pay a toxic waste fee to get rid of
it.
73
Randy Cook - K6CRC
[email protected]
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