Chuck - wow what a detailed and speedy response. Part of why I have always loved the MLO community.
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 4:55 AM Chuck Waterfield <chuck.waterfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > Ugh. Funny I tried MLO on Wine when I moved to the Mac 3 computer refreshes ago - almost 9 yrs now. Wine was a monster for disk space and visuals didn't work quite right. > > 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. > :-) This later reason is why I want a 32GB Mac (hope Apple is listening) and a 2 TB drive. 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! > Perhaps we should send Andrey some roses along with our feature request. Cheers 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 mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/CA%2BUdPQ_BmQoD3qmbRp%2B_xQMadsc0MmtdO5aycScG88nFkMoavQ%40mail.gmail.com.
