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Running Counselog on an Apple Mac |
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In the past, this was not possible but new developments in Mac technology such as the Intel Mac and Boot Camp now make it possible. We quote here from a Counselog User who has Mac and has investigated the issue. If you have a Mac and want to try out Counselog on it, please contact us first.
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I run a mac, counselog will not run on OSX itself but, there are
two possible ways to run any windows application from a Mac:
If you have an new intel mac:
1.
MacOSX Boot Camp allows you to create a dual booting machine. You
to create two partitions on your machine and install a windows
operating system on one partition along with OSx on the other on
same machine.When you start the machine you are presented with a
choice as to which operating system you want to start. Therefore
you can run whatever you like on the windows OS. Look up
information about boot camp, here is a good place to
start http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html
For most macs (with a minimum of gb memory)
2. You can run a windows virtual machine from within OSX. There
are two piece of software that allow you to do this VMware fusions
and Paralels. These allow you to run windows at the same time as
accessing OSX. You can evaluate both pieces of software for a
number of days. I strongly suggest that you do not do both at the
same time as this could cause conflicts over how the network and
handling other resources operate. As you are effectively running
two operating systems at the same time you need to have plenty of
memory in particular (min 1gb). One tip windows 2000 uses less
memory than XP. Unless you have 2gb memory you probably shouldn't
try to run vista :)
I have run both: Apple have announced support for vmware fusion
to run on their servers as well as being able to
run leopard server on the desktop. If you are not aware you
can also run other operating systems such as linux. You can also
run more than one Virtual Machine (vm) at a time ,
memory permitting and can makes changes to the machines that are
reversible, allowing you to try out software and other changes and
revert back.
here http://www.parallels.com/landingpage/dskd10/?gclid=CNjA8a7g_JACFQlCMAod1AQbqg
and here
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/
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