Soaring Mac users - recommendation ?

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Hi folks - I just got an inquiry from a Mac user looking for
a PC recommendation. Anybody out there running one
of the Windows options on a new Powerbook ? What
works for StrePla/SeeYou ? Dual-boot to Windows ?
One of the VM solutions ?
Recommendations please !
Thanks,
Best Regards, Dave "YO"

[Randy[_2_]]

Hello Dave,
I am using a MacBook Pro with Boot Camp to run my couple of Window
Programs, SeeYou/StrePla
and Condor Soaring. It works great!

Randy

RS
Tulsa, OK

[5Z]

Just happened to be reading about this subject today at
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/technology/circuits.html

An excerpt:

....One solution is a program called Parallels Desktop for Mac ($80,
Parallels.com). It lets you run Windows *in a window*, right on top of
Mac OS X, so you don't have to restart when you want to run a Windows
program. You can copy and paste between Mac and Windows programs, and
you save a lot of time. Parallels can run any version of Windows back
to version 3.1 (and even DOS, Solaris and so on), and it's about 90
percent as fast as running a dedicated Windows PC...

-Tom

[toad]

Dave,

I use a MacBook Pro with Parallels 2.5 ( one of the VM options) and
Seeyou. Seeyou works great and with a Keyspan USB to Serial adapter I
can communicate with my Colibri.

Todd Smith
3S

[[email protected]]

I have used Strepla, SeeYou, WindPilot 3D, and Great Plains Flight
Simulator, and other 3D intensive applications on Mac's for quite
awhile now.

If you buy a new Mac, you can usually get Parallels for about $10
more, if you buy them together. You can get Bootcamp free from Apple.

When running under Bootcamp, you will see native PC speeds. When
running under Parallels, the 3D speeds are slower than on a PC.
Parallels 3.0 (just released last week), is supposed to allow native
speeds for OpenGL and DirectX.

Unfortunately, when I ran Parallels 3.0, it would crash when running
SeeYou in 3D. WinPilot 3D became graphically unstable. When I
lowered the hardware graphics acceleration in Windows XP to the next
to the lowest setting, it would then run correctly, but then the 3D
graphics speed was no better than before.

[Andrej Kolar]

There's a good discussion going on in Naviter support forum about
that:
http://www.naviter.si/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,154/topic,2134.0

Apparently Paralells 3.x works really well. Those of you who visited
our booth at the SSA Conference could see SeeYou in action on a
PowerBook with Paralells 2.something. Paralells have a trial version -
feel free to test it priort to making a decision.

Regards,
Andrej Kolar
--
glider pilots use
http://www.SeeYou.si

On Jun 12, 3:17 am, wrote:
> Hi folks - I just got an inquiry from a Mac user looking for
> a PC recommendation. Anybody out there running one
> of the Windows options on a new Powerbook ? What
> works for StrePla/SeeYou ? Dual-boot to Windows ?
> One of the VM solutions ?
> Recommendations please !
> Thanks,
> Best Regards, Dave "YO"

[toad]

Parallels 3.0 might not be fully de-bugged yet, but I have run Seeyou
in 3D under 2.5 with no problems. The speed was fine, I don't know if
it was any slower than Bootcamp, but it was usable.

Todd

[Steve Freeman]

I run a variety of aviation software on my mac using either bootcamp
from apple or if I am in a hurry I run Parrallels. It allows me to run
Windows in a window within the mac OS. Have no problems and the speed
is very close to my windows laptop which I rarely use now.


wrote:
> Hi folks - I just got an inquiry from a Mac user looking for
> a PC recommendation. Anybody out there running one
> of the Windows options on a new Powerbook ? What
> works for StrePla/SeeYou ? Dual-boot to Windows ?
> One of the VM solutions ?
> Recommendations please !
> Thanks,
> Best Regards, Dave "YO"

[Shawn[_3_]]

wrote:
> Hi folks - I just got an inquiry from a Mac user looking for
> a PC recommendation. Anybody out there running one
> of the Windows options on a new Powerbook ? What
> works for StrePla/SeeYou ? Dual-boot to Windows ?
> One of the VM solutions ?
> Recommendations please !
> Thanks,
> Best Regards, Dave "YO"
>
My wife's iMac has Bootcamp running XP Home. Sick to see Windows on a
Mac, but it runs like any other Windows machine (as near as I can tell).
Condor, and any other PC programs we've tried run completely normally.
IIRC Bootcamp (Apple's Windows start-up utility
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ ) only partitions 32 GB of of disk
space, but if you've already got a Mac, why would you want to mess with
movies, music, or Photoshop on the Windows side? :-)



Shawn