For under $80, run Windows seamlessly on your Mac with Parallels PC

https://newatlas.com ^ | Mar 24, 2022 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Apple - PC Ping!..................

[John S Mosby]

Skip the whole thing. Run Linux and skip all of Windows forever.

Why go with Apple to continue to inform the derpists.

[libh8er]

Does this mean you can run Microsoft Flight sim 2020 on a Mac Studio ?

[Red Badger]

I have no earthly idea................

[algore]

Or you can run mac os on your windows computer using virtual box.

Or just dual boot on your intel mac

[algore]

No it wont run, it might crawl if you are lucky

[FreedomPoster]

Will that run on one of the new M1 Macs? And no, in true FReeper fashion, I have not clicked thru and read the article.

[monkeyshine]

I was all Apple from 1982 until the early 1990s. Then as I joined the business world, the availability of accounting and warehouse/production management software made me switch to Windows. We still used Apple for design stuff, but, then switched that over to Windows.

I do use an iPhone, though. It syncs fine with Windows.

Now I wonder whether I should switch everything to cloud based, drop all the hardware management annoyances. But, last time I tried to use a Mac a few years ago, all the buttons were backwards and I had no idea what the icons do. So, learning curve... Plus, I still have my hesitations with cloud stuff giving all my data to all the spies out there.

[moovova]

So...Tim Cook AND Bill Gates can suck up your info at the same time.

[Dr. Sivana]

Popular programs such as Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, Quickbooks, Internet Explorer

Except for Access, the major components of Microsoft Office are available for Mac. So is Quickbooks. I have no idea why ANY Mac user would want Microsoft Visual Studio. Internet Explorer is mainly used for running legacy intranet programs in corporate environments, though at least it isn't Chromium-based.

Oddly, I actually need to use Access, so I still run a Windows environment on a dual-boot setup. I also use Filemaker Pro in Windows, because my other OS is Ubuntu, and I don't know of any way to make FileMaker 18 run in Ubuntu.

[Dr. Sivana]

Why go with Apple to continue to inform the derpists.

No Linux equivalent of FileMaker Pro. Some Linux apps are compromises.

[Red Badger]

won’t Filmmaker RUN ON Mac?............

[qwerty1234]

>>Will that run on one of the new M1 Macs? And no, in true FReeper fashion, I have not clicked thru and read the article.

Only ARM versions of windows - x86 OS’s are not supported, and likely never will be.

[Dr. Sivana]

won’t Filmmaker RUN ON Mac?............

Absolutely, but I have custom hardware and am not interested into going into the Hackintosh world. If I could get the Mac version of FileMaker to run on my Ubuntu partittion, that would be one less thing I need Windows for. I am NOT going to buy a separate computer just to run one Mac program.

[Paal Gulli]

Rather like installing the engine from a Yugo into a S-Class Mercedes.

[Alas Babylon!]

Technically, you are still obligated to purchase an OS lincense from Microsoft, regardless of the hardware or software platform you launch it from.

It may be included with the hardware or software, but do check.

[libh8er]

Crawl on a Mac Studio ? Mac Studio is a beast.

[Montana_Sam]

I’ll ask the obvious: what’s the problem with running FileMaker on Ubuntu in WINE?
Saw this link that shows WINE seemed to support FileMaker at some point:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=337

[IndispensableDestiny]

I’ve used VMWare Fusion to run Windows, Linux, and Android on my Mac.