The reason it’s only slightly OT is because my specific question is around computrainer. Is anyone running theirs on an emulator on a mac?
If so, or if you use one for other reasons, is there an emulator you recommend? I know nothing about these.
From their website, it looks like there is sometimes a problem with the serial-USB adapter, but it doesn’t list specific emulation software.
Any guidance is appreciated…debating on whether it’s easier to just pick up an inexpensive pc.
Thanks!
~geek
I think “Boot Camp” is the current fav amongst the Apple crowd for running both Apple OS and Windows.
If you have OS X or newer you could probably run VMware Workstation of VMware VMServer; not sure if it would actually work or not, but in theory anyways.
Paralells Desktop for Mac - http://www.parallels.com/
Works a treat. I run XP Home in a window on my mac desktop, and can copy / paste between the mac desktop and the PC desktop that runs inside it. It rules
or you can try crossover for mac, i don’t garentee it wll work but if it does you can run windows apps with out windows installed.
Ben
VMWare Fusion is the new VMWare product for OSX.
No idea whether the Computrainer will interface correctly, but it will probably run OK.
I think “Boot Camp” is the current fav amongst the Apple crowd for running both Apple OS and Windows.
Bootcamp and Paralells are great…if you ave an Intel Mac…otherwise…Virtual PC is an option but not a very good one…
Thanks for everything guys - I’ll let you know what works for me.
isn’t having a mac and a windows emulator kind of like buying a light bike and carrying ankle weights?
hee - yup! - talk to computrainer about that! 
i’ve gone 2+ years without windows now, and this is the first that i’ve considered going back to the dark side.
Depending on your set-up, it’s not a bad idea to buy a super cheap dedicated PC just for the CompuTrainer anyways. A lot of people don’t want to have their main computer in the same place where their CT is. I’ve had Macs for ever, but bought a really cheap PC and it’s only ever used for the CTs. We actually have a Mac in the same room too and that’s what we run movies, music, etc. on which works great.
Also good advice. I occasionally run into a program that interests me that is only available in Windows, so I thought it might not be a bad idea to try the emulator for a few miscellaneous things as well. But have also debated picking up an inexpensive pc to just keep next to the trainer. Oh, the dilemma!! I’ll figure something out - getting a bunch of great suggestions here.
My wife is a designer, we thought the cool 24 inch mac would be a nice toy for her, but some of her clients use ms publisher for windows for things like newsletters and ads, so the idea that she could run windows on a mac was pretty slick.
It didn’t work very well - photoshop especially - adobe said it will take a full year for them to rewrite the program for the intel chip. In windows, the mouuse didn’t work correctly, and other problems. Both Apple store experts and Adobe support plus compusa staff tried to sort it all out, to no avail. It went back.
Once adobe rewrites photoship and indesign that we will look again, maybe the emulator software will be improved by then as well.
I believe the native intel version of Photoshop is out in public beta already…
Was looking for a different thread and saw this one, but VMware Fustion is SWEET.
Got a demo of it by my companies VMware TAM and it’s freaking cool.
Make sure you check out if the emulator you get is compatible with your Mac. The Intel based Macs can’t use some of the same emulators the older Macs could.