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    • travisdh1T
      travisdh1 @WrCombs
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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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      • WrCombsW
        WrCombs @travisdh1
        last edited by

        @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?

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        • WrCombsW
          WrCombs @WrCombs
          last edited by

          @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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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @travisdh1
            last edited by

            @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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            • travisdh1T
              travisdh1 @scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              @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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              • travisdh1T
                travisdh1 @WrCombs
                last edited by

                @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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                • WrCombsW
                  WrCombs @WrCombs
                  last edited by

                  @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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                  • dafyreD
                    dafyre @travisdh1
                    last edited by dafyre

                    @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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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @WrCombs
                      last edited by

                      @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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                      • travisdh1T
                        travisdh1 @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        @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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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @travisdh1
                          last edited by

                          @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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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
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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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                            • dafyreD
                              dafyre
                              last edited by

                              I'm just biding my time 'til 5pm. Weekend planned and ready for it to start.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
                                last edited by

                                Finally done with work and binging Stranger Things 4 with my Liesl.

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                                • JaredBuschJ
                                  JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  @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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                                  • WrCombsW
                                    WrCombs
                                    last edited by

                                    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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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @WrCombs
                                      last edited by

                                      @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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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
                                        last edited by

                                        @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.

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                                        • WrCombsW
                                          WrCombs @scottalanmiller
                                          last edited by

                                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @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?

                                          Better now that she was given some food. she wasn't able to keep anything down for about a week.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @WrCombs
                                            last edited by

                                            @WrCombs 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:

                                            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?

                                            Better now that she was given some food. she wasn't able to keep anything down for about a week.

                                            Oh wow. 😞

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