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No Macs Allowed!

by martialmarketer
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Hello Warriors!

Has this ever happened to you? You see a nice bit of software that could greatly improve your productivity. Excitedly, you read the reviews and it has everything you need and more! You keep scrolling down, sure that this program is the best thing since sliced bread, only to be stopped by the system requirements. "For Windows XP, Vista, and 7" which translates to "No macs allowed!" lol

How many warriors use mac computers for their business campaigns? How do you cope with the seemingly PC centric Internet Marketing world?
#allowed #macs
  • Profile picture of the author Sour
    Thankfully, us OS X users have a couple options. You can virtualize Windows (it's basically if you had Windows as an application on your desktop) with something like VMWare Fusion; you can use CrossOver, but they're limited in what applications you can use; or you can install Boot Camp which is a HDD partition if I recall correctly (it'd be like having the option to run Windows or OS X on start-up, I think).

    Take your pick .
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    • Profile picture of the author martialmarketer
      Originally Posted by Sour View Post

      Thankfully, us OS X users have a couple options. You can virtualize Windows (it's basically if you had Windows as an application on your desktop) with something like VMWare Fusion; you can use CrossOver, but they're limited in what applications you can use; or you can install Boot Camp which is a HDD partition if I recall correctly (it'd be like having the option to run Windows or OS X on start-up, I think).

      Take your pick .
      Thank you Sour and everyone else who replied.

      Looks like I'm going to try the virtual pc solution! I had actually considered boot camp in the past, but figured there had to be a simpler way.
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  • Profile picture of the author wfhblueprints
    I use a Mac for 99% of things......but use a PC for all that software that I cannot run!
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    • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
      The problem is that Apple has intentionally made things difficult and expensive for small, entrepreneurial, software developers to create applications for their systems. Somehow they forgot that this close association with software developers is what made the Apple ][ take off back in their early days.

      My suggestion would be to either use a dual boot system or, if you work from home most of the time, buy an inexpensive desktop PC and terminal into from your Mac over your home network.
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        • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
          Originally Posted by John Henderson View Post

          Difficult and expensive? The primary development language for OS X is Objective C -- which is C plus an object-oriented layer on top. I'm not sure that there are many developers who would find it difficult to program in C.
          This isn't a programming or software development forum so I won't go into the details of the problems with and limitations of Objective C, but they are numerous as compared to current Microsoft languages (VB.NET, C#) and other open source and commercial languages (C++, Delphi, Java, etc.).

          On top of that, you have to go through Apple to license apps for the Mac or iPhone.

          Software developers, especially small shop developers, have been ignored or treated as unimportant by Apple since about 1984 and developers have largely repaid the favor. While they have made some recent amends, especially now that Android is giving iPhone a run for it's money, many of us remember how arrogantly we were treated in the past.
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  • Profile picture of the author AFI
    Yeah I do the same thing. I do most of my business on the Mac and then have a Dell laptop too. I tried to run Parallels but it is unstable.
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  • Profile picture of the author Laura B
    I've never found a program I needed that I couldn't run on my Mac - in the past using Virtual PC and now using Parallels. Haven't had any problems with either - yet!
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    • Profile picture of the author Marty S
      Originally Posted by martialmarketer View Post

      only to be stopped by the system requirements. "For Windows XP, Vista, and 7" which translates to "No macs allowed!"
      Yes but if you do a little searching, most of the times there is an even better program designed specifically for the Mac. So if you find a piece of software like you explained above, simply do a search such as "Mac alternative to Camtasia" for example. And wowsa, then you find Screenflow for a third of the price and a significantly better product. (I know Camtasia owners will argue this - I own it as well, but the proof is actually provided by Camtasia themselves when they produced a Mac version last year of their software, that is nothing like their PC version, and much more like screenflow.)

      Way back in the 1990s when I had a Mac, there was very little if ANYTHING that overlapped so we are so much better at having alternatives now, and if not there are always bridge programs.

      I think this is also becoming less of a problem now too because Mac market share for desktops is growing. In Steve Jobs last keynote (introducing iLife11) he said 1 of every 5 desktops sold in their last sales period was a Mac. So programmers who are not on top of such data are ignoring a growing market at their own loss.

      In fact, I recently convinced a partner of mine who knows NOTHING of programming for Mac to add a Mac version of software we have been selling for 5 years now. This is mainly in response to prospects consistently emailing me asking for a Mac version.

      Originally Posted by AFI View Post

      Yeah I do the same thing. I do most of my business on the Mac and then have a Dell laptop too. I tried to run Parallels but it is unstable.
      I run Parallels 24 hours day on my Mac. Are you up to date on everything? Such as OS and Parallels v6?
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      • Profile picture of the author koolphoto
        I have a few friends that are running mostly Windows 7 and programs on the new Macbook Air. I am thinking of doing it myself.
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  • Profile picture of the author Daryl Lim
    Wow... that's painful.

    I'm preying on a new Macbook Air... Nevertheless
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