steve22 Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Hi Guys! I saw serveral posts/articles about leopard having the ability to run windows apps natively. How true is this? ~Matt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37883-running-windows-apps-on-leopard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzeh Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 You can do that through a program called parallels....I think. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37883-running-windows-apps-on-leopard/#findComment-269942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Leopard isn't going to be able to run Windows apps natively, but it will have Boot Camp built-in, so you can easily dual-boot with Windows. If that's not enough, you can run Windows (and many other OSes) in a virtual machine with a program called Parallels. There are other programs that do the same thing (VMware...), but Parallels is the best one so far. It has a feature called Coherency that makes it look like your Windows apps are running right on top of your OSX desktop instead of another VM window. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37883-running-windows-apps-on-leopard/#findComment-269947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve22 Posted January 7, 2007 Author Share Posted January 7, 2007 What about RedBox http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/6110/? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37883-running-windows-apps-on-leopard/#findComment-269959 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 03:01 AM EST That is old. Just use CrossOver. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37883-running-windows-apps-on-leopard/#findComment-270049 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLux Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 What about RedBox http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/6110/? Never existed, never exist. Reprogamming Win32 is a huge task. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37883-running-windows-apps-on-leopard/#findComment-270130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phor2zero Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 It would have been (or "would be") nice if Apple had jumped in on Wine/Darwine/Crossover. It would be far more elegent to run Microsoft Money 2007 natively in OS X with built in Win32 API's. Parallels in Coherency is so cool it's almost awesome, even though it's really clunky compared to Darwine/Crossover. Unfortunately Darwine/Crossover has very limited functionality. It runs a couple of MS Office apps (unecessary with Office:Mac anyways) and Half Life 2 (that's cool!). The rest of the software compatibility list is entirely "unsupported" software. Very few Win32 apps work 100%, very few even work at all. I don't know how much commercial effort Crossover has put behind the Wine/Darwine projects, but I'm sure Apple could have (could) put lot's of expertise into it, with significant results. (still wishing for iMoney in iLife Suite though) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37883-running-windows-apps-on-leopard/#findComment-276515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 (edited) iWallet seems a little more likely than iMoney. Sure most people who buy Apple stuff are made almost entirely of money, but think of it from this perspective... All users really are just wallets anyways. Why not use an app that tells you that up front? Edited January 15, 2007 by Adrian Fogge Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37883-running-windows-apps-on-leopard/#findComment-276541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Mac Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Hey, With Cross Over Mac its possible! :mellow: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37883-running-windows-apps-on-leopard/#findComment-276584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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