Beeblebrox - Nov 01, 2005 03:35am

Frozonecold - Oct 31, 2005 10:41pm

But, with Virtual PC, the performance is terrible, on a true virtual machine performance will be much better, good enough for you to use a lot of professional end software. Emulators suck, but there are 2 things to remember.
1 Virtual machines are not emulators.
2 Wine is not an emulator.

Does Wine run in OS X?

I see what you’re talking about, the whole running Windows on the Mac thing.  It’s still up in the air on whether that will be officially supported (doesn’t look like it), but the best case scenario would, I believe, be a dual boot.

And even if the new Macs had fast switching to Windows, I’d still get a separate PC.  I like to have both systems running at the same time.  I’m often doing work on one at the same I’m doing work on the other. 

So for me, the VM capability is not an advantage, although I could see why it would be for some.

Whatever works for you, and yes wine will support Mac OS X.

It didn’t take much to get me hooked. First there was MacPaint on a system at school (don’t remember the model). Then I got a desktop publishing job on an SE, which was quickly upgraded to a IICi?. Then in college they were running Quadras and then on up thru the years. Bought a Performa 6115CD on my way out to the real world. Once OSX came out things just got even better. Even on those low-end systems w/small screens I enjoyed working on them…

In 1986 I was living in a Co-op house with six other people, and one of them had a Mac Plus, I was totally fascinated. He let me work on it occasionally and I was smitten, but it wasn’t until eight years or so later that I finally bought my own, a 6100/60 the first PowerPC.  I was unwilling to buy until the monitors could display in true colours, and this was the first out-of-the-box Mac that could. I hate looking at dithered photos.

My first computer was a Mac clone a PowerComputing PowerCenter 150 (desktop model). I wanted it at home so I could make textures and bring them to school for my 3D course I was taking in 1996-7.

It was a beefed up version of the Power Mac 7200 but with an even better processor (PowerPC 604 vs. a PowerPC 603), a faster motherboard and a bigger HD (a whopping 1GB vs. a 500MB in the 7200). It was more expandable too. I kept that workhorse for 6 years and it was great!