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Aloone_Jonez:
I know.

M51DPS:

--- Quote from: cymon ---It'll also be slower than a third grader in Calc II Honors and will continue the great Wine tradition of not working with certain apps.
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Granted, it will never be as fast as native applications, but I think it should at least be usable, especially on Intel Macs where QEMU is not needed.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: M51DPS ---Granted, it will never be as fast as native applications, but I think it should at least be usable, especially on Intel Macs where QEMU is not needed.
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But could you not just use wine on intel macs?

cymon:

--- Quote from: M51DPS ---Granted, it will never be as fast as native applications, but I think it should at least be usable, especially on Intel Macs where QEMU is not needed.
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I can only hope it's a little faster than QEMU, seeing as how you're not emulating an entire OS, just the x86 machine code for one program. Of course, you wouldn't be able to run anything too CPU intensive in it. However, it does have an option to recompile Windows apps for PowerPC. I wish that people hadn't stopped making PC compatability cards for macs. Sun makes them for their UltraSPARC systems, and while most Macs aren't that upgradeable, you could still have an external unit, if possible.

M51DPS:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---But could you not just use wine on intel macs?
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Basically, that's what Darwine does on Intel Macs. Because you do not need QEMU, all you are basically getting is Wine compiled and tweaked to work with OS X (or really, to work with Darwin) and (hopefully soon) a Quartz driver so you do not need to use X11.

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