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I have just purchased my new mac, which is the 27inch imac with 3.4ghz quad processor, 8gb of ram, 1tb hard drive and a AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1GB GDDR5 graphics card.
I was told this is the best machine, apart from the ram not being 16gb but I thought it was not needed, but I may be wrong.
Anyway I was wondering what software will compensate for what I already have on the pc.
I am a web designer and coder.
Also do you know if adobe allow you to use pc license on mac? the reason I ask is I have just purchase creative suite cs6 on pc and it has 3pc license. I have used it on just 1 machine, will it allow me to use it on mac?
If I'm not mistaken, the licenses are, in fact, OS specific. I ran across this problem recently (at home, I use a Mac, at work I use a PC) and couldn't get a proper install working. Alternatives? Well, it's not quite as shiny, but Gimp has gotten quite good recently. For any other software check out AlternativeTo. It's a pretty spiffy site for finding software not available on your platform (or in your price range).
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NEARLY FORGOT MY FAVORITE PIECE OF MAC SOFTWARE: TextWrangler! If you like your code editors slim, TextWrangler is for you. None of that tag closing crap, VERY solid built-in FTP, fully customizable code-coloring, low profile interface.
If adobe is available for mac i`m almost sure the license will count for the mac to. Why dont just try it? OR take a look at http://www.adobe.com/nl/support/
I guess not. But you can try to run Windows in Parallels/VmWare/VirtualBox on MAC and launch Adobe inside.
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apologies in advance in case someone answers this already (but looks like have tried everything)
Just build my first pc recently:
AMD® Ryzen 5 3600 6-core processor
ASUS Prime X570-P ATX Motherboard
burn Ubuntu to USB from my MacBook and it's all working fine. ( Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS )
The problem is that I wanna install Windows 10 into PC also.
Have done partition on SSD (have just one SSD + HDD).
But no matter what I try can't seems to install everything right.
It's one of these:
Or pc just can't find my flash drive ( probably something is wrong with the way I burn iso to it)
Or if it does found it I get an error somewhere in the middle of installing, that there is no file for the next step or something like that. ( iso downloaded from Microsoft official page)
I have tried it with various programs (on ios and ubuntu) or even a command line. Even changing settings in BIOS to boot any external drive.
The easy way is to format your Ubuntu partition and install Windows first. Then the Ubuntu installer will automatically detect Windows and and you should be fine.
The hard way is to keep Ubuntu and install Windows. Then you will need to restore grub (Ubuntu's boot loader).
You have to run and install both OS with in (U)EFI mode and adjust some settings in UEFI. This could be the reason for the flashdrive not being found. If you have used tools like Rufus for creation of the bootable USB drive it could also be broken. It is enough to format the flashdrive with FAT32 and copy the contents of the ISO into its root.
Maybe this and this will help
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This is part of a migration from Vista to Windows7. I now have a dual boot computer, with Win7 the preferred OS. From time to time I might need to go back to Vista to see how the things were configured there and then I will need to go back to Win7 to configure/install the same app there.
This is a computer that had very complex settings and it was difficult and risky to upgrade in place, to install Win7 over Vista.
In order to avoid countless reboots I would like to be able to always run Win7 and when I need I would like to be able to fire up VMWare Workstation and to start a Vista Machine that would have as HDD the physical HDD where currently Vista resides. I would expect the VMWare machine to run the OS installed on that HDD and I would expect Vista no to see that the hardware changed. My apps are not hardware dependent.
Is this possible?
Its possible and there are a few ways you could go about doing this.
The Easy Way
VMware Desktop allows you to use your existing partition/Disk to boot from only if its an IDE Disk.
https://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_disk_dualboot.html
The hard way
You can capture the Windows Vista OS as an .wim image with Windows Deployment Tool ImageX.exe. Then use other tools to create a bootable ISO. You would have to update the image though every time you feel there are a lot of changes made in Vista you want to see in VMware.
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I have this technical question please!
I need to install MAC system in a Windows one.
A few questions:
Can i do that? (I read I could use VirtualBox or smth..)
Would I be able to run Xcode?
There are ways to do this, but technically it's illegal. Also I don't think it's worth the trouble. You can get a used Mac mini for a couple of 100$ on ebay.
Yes you definitely can. It's possible with both VirtualBox and VMWare Player. Google around, there's work to do.
It's been my experience that VirtualBox has some issues (e.g. clicking 'About This Mac' causes a logout). In both cases you won't have accelerated graphics. And yes you can any run XCode. I went with VMWare Player, works fine although Mountain Lion seems more laggy than Snow Leopard.
I'm not sure it's illegal to run a legal copy of OSX on non-Apple hardware, but the EULA doesn't allow it. (IANAL)
Yes you can but your bios need to support pcvirtualisation
I'm pretty sure there is a way you could, but any way that is possible, it would be completely illegal. Apple has made sure that it's not legal to use Apple products on non-Apple hardware. Corrected, it's not an actual law, just EULA doesn't allow it.
I just recommend you save up a couple of bucks and just buy a cheap Mac Mini at eBay or something like that, it would probably work better than any virtual copy of Mac OS X anyway.
Writing this from a newly bought Mac BTW.
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I love some Mac OSX developer applications such as Coda. But I run Windows on my desktop, and Mac OS X on my laptop. My question is simple, can I run Mac OS X applications individually on the Windows platform - without having to run a whole virtual Mac OS X machine?
It is more than possible. OSx86 documents it pretty well, but then you need to dual boot to get into OSX and that is lees than ideal. I don't know what Goz means by flakey, OSX on a PC is identical to Mac, better sometimes (you have proper control of the underlying hardware, and are able to use BIOS to tailor it to your needs)
Natively? Like Wine? Unfortunately no, mainly because 99% of Mac apps aren't built againsy Mach-O only, they are built against Cocoa and all the other higher level code that Apple works very hard to protect. There are even device drivers built into every install of OSX that decrypt encrypted parts of Finder, iWork and various other 1st party Apps incase anyone was ever successful in natively emulating OSX and its frame works (see DontStealMacOSX.kext)
No you can't. Even a whole virtual MacOSX machine will be flakey as hell ...
If they are both in a network you could access your mac laptop using VNC, you need to enable sharing in your mac preferences and then use a VNC client on your windows machine.
But this seems like non-ideal solution.
It would be much easier to do the opposite and run windows as a virtual machine under OSX. You could even import your current windows desktop into a virtual machine with Parallels.
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I've just listened to episode 6 of StackOverflow podcast, and I just wonder, is there a free and good enough implementation of Mac Spaces for Windows?
try Dexpo
from their website
With Dexpot you may have separate virtual desktops for different applications. One desktop might feature applications for graphic design, for example, and another might feature your business applications.
Switch between virtual desktops in order to keep track of your open windows. Using Dexpot, you'll considerably increase your workflow.
Try the Microsoft Sysinternals Desktops, it offers 4 virtual desktops.
No there isn't, at least not for XP. It's hard because xp wasn't designed with that in mind, while Mac and Linux handle it beautifully.
The best one for XP that I have found is VirtualWin, which just works by hiding windows. It's hacky, but at least it gets the main idea down. I think if you've got an accelerated desktop like vista, VDM might be worth a look. But since I don't have vista, I can't be sure.
Microsoft has a Virtual Desktop Manager PowerToy. Not nearly as good as the ones on Linux & OSX, though.
Dexpot is the best i've found for options and functionality, however the free version comes with some trashware in the installer, if you just install the pro trial and then tear down the free version installer with 7zip and copy the program files in to the program directory - it works like a champ however - No trashware.
Try not to break your computer doing this.