Hi Mark, So here’s what I know from about 8 years in the Mac world. While needing access to Windows. I tried CrossOver and Parallels back then and settled on Parallels. Today I did download CrossOver to see if it had advanced much, and it hasn’t. So here’s the situation:
CrossOver is inexpensive ($40) and lightweight (compact footprint). It translates *most* of Windows programming on-the-fly so that it runs on the Mac. So it also doesn’t need a purchased copy of Windows Operating System. It warns you it doesn’t run all Windows apps, and it warns you there may be some flaky behavior. I tried it today with MLO and it worked so-so. A number of times it just wouldn’t react to my mouse clicks for a while, and then eventually it would wake up and start working again. I do a lot of professional work with Windows apps, and I settled on Parallels, which is a fabulous app. It runs Windows flawlessly on a Mac, so you can have both operating systems running simultaneously. But it requires a 70G file sitting on your hard drive and it takes a fair amount of RAM to have it open and running while also having Mac apps running. It’s also a bit more expensive, about $100/year (I think that is the cost for running on 2 computers). It’s rather a bit of overkill to have the Parallels/Windows OS running if all you want to do is have small MLO accessible. And here’s the (temporary) downside. Parallels doesn’t run (yet) on the M1 chip. They are working hard and making progress. From what I’ve read, when they’re done, you’d be able to run individual Windows apps independently (which is something like CrossOver does). I went ahead and bought the new M1 because I have other computers where I can run Windows in the meantime if necessary. And hopefully Parallels will be out for M1 before too long. But still, it would be nice to have MLO just actually run on a Mac without having to fake it. The iPad app really is darn close to satisfying my needs, if it would just recognize when I hit some arrow keys! Chuck On Feb 15, 2021, 4:43 PM -0500, Mark Levison <[email protected]>, wrote: > Chuck - I'm slowing going in the same direction. Although I'm waiting for the > summer's MBP 16" with an M2 and hopefully a massive amount of RAM. > > My plan is to run the windows version under crossover: > https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover have you considered that? - Mark > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/8406262f-3f21-40b1-9d0d-909d348733d9n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/87cc1a16-25cb-4e2a-acc5-ab6ec1c0711b%40Spark.
