What Are You Doing Right Now
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Morning all!
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Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.With Mac, the hypervisor can be completely transparent to the user. You put a desktop icon for the Windows software on the main desktop, and the user never even knows they're running under a different OS.
Of course, you have to pay for the hypervisor(s) that enable that for Mac. Just a cost of using the platform.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.With Mac, the hypervisor can be completely transparent to the user. You put a desktop icon for the Windows software on the main desktop, and the user never even knows they're running under a different OS.
Of course, you have to pay for the hypervisor(s) that enable that for Mac. Just a cost of using the platform.
interesting. I did not know that.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.Thankfully I found it in the Apple store on my Support iPad.. Having them check now.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.With Mac, the hypervisor can be completely transparent to the user. You put a desktop icon for the Windows software on the main desktop, and the user never even knows they're running under a different OS.
Of course, you have to pay for the hypervisor(s) that enable that for Mac. Just a cost of using the platform.
This only works on legacy Mac, right? Or does Rosetta support this? Although that's like a double VM.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.With Mac, the hypervisor can be completely transparent to the user. You put a desktop icon for the Windows software on the main desktop, and the user never even knows they're running under a different OS.
Of course, you have to pay for the hypervisor(s) that enable that for Mac. Just a cost of using the platform.
This only works on legacy Mac, right? Or does Rosetta support this? Although that's like a double VM.
We had it setup on one of the iMac with the new non-Intel CPU the end of last year at a client. So yes, it does work on old and new.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.With Mac, the hypervisor can be completely transparent to the user. You put a desktop icon for the Windows software on the main desktop, and the user never even knows they're running under a different OS.
Of course, you have to pay for the hypervisor(s) that enable that for Mac. Just a cost of using the platform.
interesting. I did not know that.
which one do you recommend?I think we used Parallels.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.Thankfully I found it in the Apple store on my Support iPad.. Having them check now.
Never mind, they can download it but it doesn't load anything like it is supposed to .
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.With Mac, the hypervisor can be completely transparent to the user. You put a desktop icon for the Windows software on the main desktop, and the user never even knows they're running under a different OS.
Of course, you have to pay for the hypervisor(s) that enable that for Mac. Just a cost of using the platform.
interesting. I did not know that.
which one do you recommend?I think we used Parallels.
That was going to be my recommendation.
A close second would be VMware Fusion.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.Thankfully I found it in the Apple store on my Support iPad.. Having them check now.
Never mind, they can download it but it doesn't load anything like it is supposed to .
Windows software running without Windows AND without AMD64 hardware would be a challenge of epic proportions. I think if someone had a Windows emulator that didn't even require PC hardware that it would be much bigger news.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.Thankfully I found it in the Apple store on my Support iPad.. Having them check now.
Never mind, they can download it but it doesn't load anything like it is supposed to .
Windows software running without Windows AND without AMD64 hardware would be a challenge of epic proportions. I think if someone had a Windows emulator that didn't even require PC hardware that it would be much bigger news.
There has been an ARM in beta for years. Otherwise some of Microsoft's own hardware wouldn't function!
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.Thankfully I found it in the Apple store on my Support iPad.. Having them check now.
Never mind, they can download it but it doesn't load anything like it is supposed to .
Windows software running without Windows AND without AMD64 hardware would be a challenge of epic proportions. I think if someone had a Windows emulator that didn't even require PC hardware that it would be much bigger news.
There has been an ARM in beta for years. Otherwise some of Microsoft's own hardware wouldn't function!
That's for the OS, not for apps running on it.
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Man the dumbest users and always the rudest. There's something about competence that makes people nice.
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I'm just biding my time 'til 5pm. Weekend planned and ready for it to start.
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Finally done with work and binging Stranger Things 4 with my Liesl.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Finally done with work and binging Stranger Things 4 with my Liesl.
I have not watched season 1 yet. This show just keeps sitting in my watchlist unwatched for some reason.
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up at the hospital with my Girlfriend, been here since Thursday. looking we may go home today but we will see.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
up at the hospital with my Girlfriend, been here since Thursday. looking we may go home today but we will see.
Oh man, is everything okay?
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Finally done with work and binging Stranger Things 4 with my Liesl.
I have not watched season 1 yet. This show just keeps sitting in my watchlist unwatched for some reason.
Oh man, it is GOOD.
