I would assume not...but there's no way in hell I'm going to now purchase the same programs that I already have on my PC, for my MAC, so I'm hoping...praying...that there's some sort of way around this. Mainly I'm talking about photoshop, illustrator & acehtml

??

Also, my dad told me about some place called versiontracker.org or .com or something, for amusing downloads for macs...anyone on here use it ever?

McDanger?? (btw, thanks, but at the last minute of my sanity I finally figured out the problem with the Airport

6/16/2006 11:20:52 PM

You're joking, right?

Some software comes on dual platform disks. I don't know if what you use does or not. Just stick it in and see if there's an installer to run. If not, then no.

Versiontracker is a good way to keep up to the minute on updates and whatever. It was the hot shit six or seven years ago when I used it, at least.

[Edited on June 16, 2006 at 11:51 PM. Reason : ]

6/16/2006 11:49:33 PM

god i hope neon finds this thread

6/16/2006 11:51:04 PM

6/17/2006 12:05:31 AM

god i hope neon finds this thread

6/17/2006 12:42:47 AM

Just pirate what you already bought for the other platform.

6/17/2006 12:45:17 AM

I've said it before, I'll say it now, and I'm sure I'll say it again....

I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT MACS...I'VE LIVED IN A PC-ONLY WORLD FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE UNTIL NOW AND THE ONLY THING I KNEW ABOUT MACS WAS THAT CTRL+ALT+DELETE EITHER DOESN'T WORK OR FUCKS SHIT UP ON MACS AND THE ONLY REASON I KNOW THAT IS BECAUSE THERE WAS AN EPISODE ABOUT IT ON SEX IN THE CITY

There are plenty of tech subjects that I can guarantee I know more about than a good deal of you so leave me alone and get off my ovaries about this mac shit, OK?

6/17/2006 12:45:29 AM

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

ha

god damn

6/17/2006 12:48:55 AM

this is an obvious troll

suspend this turd

[Edited on June 17, 2006 at 12:50 AM. Reason : .]

6/17/2006 12:50:03 AM

Quote :

"There are plenty of tech subjects that I can guarantee I know more about than a good deal of you so leave me alone and get off my ovaries about this mac shit, OK? "

6/17/2006 12:50:50 AM

6/17/2006 12:52:26 AM

^^by no means was that an invitation, and I'm sure that within the posters in tech talk there are fewer rather than more, but I wasn't talking shit

6/17/2006 1:04:01 AM

Suspend this turdsalad

6/17/2006 1:05:58 AM

The short answer is no.

A *few* programs have both Mac & PC installers on them, but that's pretty much a thing of the past.

Personally, I'd just pirate it. No way I'd buy two of the same ,just sayin...

6/17/2006 1:30:50 AM

^^not gonna happen

OK....nm, PM will be sent instead

6/17/2006 3:54:14 AM

See what I mean

Lock this thread and suspend this turdbasket

6/17/2006 3:57:57 AM

yeah this is in lock territory now

6/17/2006 4:00:14 AM

Quote :

"[Edited on June 17, 2006 at 4:04 AM."

she was asking for ways to pirate Mac software.

6/17/2006 4:06:05 AM

I don't know what you're talking about.

6/17/2006 4:08:16 AM

Please suspend this turd-dangler

6/17/2006 4:09:08 AM

i am a firm believer of editing out a thread before it becomes locked

6/17/2006 4:09:51 AM

ibtb

6/17/2006 4:10:15 AM

http://www.versiontracker.com/ is an excellent resource for Mac apps -- not just updates, but if there's something you want done you can usually find a bunch of freeware too.

I'm an admitted hypocrite when it comes to software piracy, so I won't tell you not to do it. There are plenty of sites that have Mac-related torrent files for BitTorrent, that will have all of the major apps you'll ever need.

6/17/2006 9:16:29 AM

Quote :

"Can you install the exact same program on both a PC and MAC?"

No. They may call it the same program, but you can't install a PC program directly on a Mac or a Mac program directly on a PC.

Quote :

"Can I use Mac and PC programs on the same computer?"

Yes. Do some Googling on Virtual Machines. For photo-intensive programs that you listed, it's going to not be worth it.

6/17/2006 10:52:52 AM

Are these intel macs? If so you could just install bootcamp and windows xp and install the pc programs on that. It'd run fine. Otherwise, adobe software does not generally come dual formatted. The products formerly made by macromedia do and many science and math programs do, but the big ticket adobe products don't.

6/17/2006 11:39:01 AM

fuck Boot Camp

6/17/2006 1:14:14 PM

Meh, bootcamp's free and is going to offer better performance, espescially with resource intensive programs.

6/17/2006 2:01:01 PM

ok wait....now I totally forgot about this...(momentarily anyway because I've been busy just trying to set up the wireless) but I can run XP on my mac (it's got the intel chip)....but do I just pop in a cd with the PC apps and install them on the mac when using it in XP mode?

I mean I'm somewhat curious because you always hear about how much better macs are for graphic programs and so there must be a huge difference in how they handle such programs, and it seems like if I'm using XP to run it on the mac, then the program will run exactly like it does on a PC which would sort of defeat the purpose? I mean I'd be able to run it on my mac...but it would behave just like a pc...? no?

6/17/2006 3:17:31 PM

The only thing that makes a Mac a Mac anymore is OSX. Otherwise it's basically a vanilla PC laptop.

It's not "XP Mode", its just you can dual boot XP and OSX. And no, Mac's haven't been better or faster with any program in years. The whole "better for design" thing is an urban legend.

Also, tl, you are a moron. That vpc application compresses the virtual drives, doesnt do native instruction pass-through and you think it's going to be worth replacing dual boot?

hahahahah

6/17/2006 3:29:59 PM

Quote :

"Also, tl, you are a moron. That vpc application compresses the virtual drives, doesnt do native instruction pass-through and you think it's going to be worth replacing dual boot? hahahahah"

The evidence seems to indicate it is a worthy replacement:

http://anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2740&p=14

6/17/2006 4:11:18 PM

In microsoft word maybe.

If you had read the page before that, youd see it has really shitty video performance, it cant use both cores of the dual core cpu, and no 3d support at all.

In other words its useless for video or animation, useless for 3d, useless for dual core apps, and good for MS Word.

6/17/2006 10:37:24 PM

It's also good for photoshop type stuff too.

6/17/2006 10:45:12 PM

This thread is painful to read. You can't be serious.

6/17/2006 11:04:00 PM

Quote :

"In other words its useless for video or animation, useless for 3d, useless for dual core apps, and good for MS Word."

And perfectly fine for the apps in question.

Quote :

"Mainly I'm talking about photoshop, illustrator & acehtml "

6/17/2006 11:15:31 PM

http://www.apple.com/getamac/windows.html

6/17/2006 11:24:27 PM

Quote :

"And perfectly fine for the apps in question. "

The review said it has problems with basic Windows UI animations stuttering and slowing down. The reviewer said it was annoying to the point of making it not worth using.

And having worked with Photoshop through VM's and VNC connections, stuttering on basic animation/screen movement is annoying as piss.

6/18/2006 12:49:47 AM

this thread has done it for me. i'm switching to firefox & blocking all of esgargs posts.

6/18/2006 1:59:51 AM

I was pretty surprised to find Starcraft works on both a mac and a pc.

6/18/2006 11:30:27 AM

why the fuck did you buy a mac, m2c?

[Edited on June 18, 2006 at 4:49 PM. Reason : ]

6/18/2006 4:49:07 PM

you don't need a mac evidentily

6/18/2006 6:30:45 PM

^^I didn't...my dad just got me and my sister macbooks a few weeks ago. It all started when I asked my dad if he had any old macs that I could use just to use for seeing how my webpages looked on mac...the next thing I've got a brand new macbook. And then he gave me what he said was his old iMac which is huge and currently sitting on my floor cause I have no idea what to do with it

6/18/2006 6:37:58 PM

sell them

6/18/2006 6:41:59 PM

well I'm def not selling the macbook...and I think my dad wouldn't appreciate if I sold the iMac

6/18/2006 6:43:10 PM

6/18/2006 7:24:28 PM

ibtl

6/19/2006 2:27:31 PM

gsx server

6/19/2006 3:43:29 PM

please bucket this thread

6/19/2006 3:49:50 PM

please bucket this thread

6/19/2006 3:49:53 PM