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Why lose the Aqua interface experience? Two dimensional Windows OS is so old.

KLH
New York City

Stay focused, go slow, keep it simple.

Although I do not think that I would personally do this, I think that there could be a big market for the Apple/Mac hardware with windows running as the OS.

... if only to run SAS and AMOS. Right now I do almost everything on my powerbook, but I still need to keep a dell around to run these two applications.

And no, SPSS 11 just doesn't cut it.

Personally, I would dual-boot to play games though that's exceedingly rare these days (time for playing games).

Realistically, It would be incredibly helpful for us to be able to run Windows on our Macs. We have an infrastructure that is built around Windows at an administrational level. This isn't uncommon. There are several core intranet applications that were deployed with only Windows support. Another good example is the recent Grants.gov Grant Viewer application. It currently only runs in Windows.

In a perfect world, we would be able to run Windows applications in windows, root-less, on our Intel Macs. I would like to see a real integration of something like Wine so that I could simply fire up a *.exe windows file and have it run right along side Safari. This would, of course, be non-trivial since we would not only need full Windows library support but we'd need some sort of Registry running. I'm sure, however, that Apple or Microsoft could enable this with a project that functioned similarly to the Tru-Blue OS 9 emulation layer in OS X. It wouldn't be a perfect solution but I'd much rather add an extra 512MB of RAM instead of running a Terminal Server or buying a seperate Windows PC so that research groups could run an occasional Windows binary on the Mac.

Steven.

No, I would not dual boot. I run a windows machine beside my Mac and flip the switch on the screen if I need the windows machine. I would run XP inside osx however. But dual boot is not very useful unless you only use one or the other OS. If you need to check how your web page works in IE on XP then you dont want to have to reboot your computer everytime and it makes much more sense to have XP running inside your OSX. Currently I use RDC or remote desktop connection from microsoft running inside OSX Tiger. Works great over 1Gig Ethernet and lets me run my XP machine in a window of my OSX operating system which I have found so much more superior to XP. Funny thing is that I thought I would need my XP machine for things (all those thousands of unavailable programs that MS tells us we will miss) after I bought my first mac last year and have yet to turn my XP machine on for much beyond a test here and there.

I've been wondering about the viability of using SPSS for Windows on the Intel Macs. In fact, I'm waiting to make a purchase of a MacBook until I find out if it's possible to do so. I just can't wait until some time in 2007 when SPSS says they should have an intel compatible product for mac. Has anyone tried SPSS Windows on the new Macs? SPSS says that operating SPSS in Rosetta results in miscalculations. Does that apply to using Windows on the mac?