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Novaz04:
http://wired.com/Articles: news/technology/0,1282,64914,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2

Companys link: http://www.Transitive.com/

Could this be the real thing? No need for stupid horribly slow VPC, and instead a program that could support a PC game. The unity between PC software and Mac software. Now people have absolutely no reason to use silly excuses like "Macs don't run my software".

Siadly though, it's a two way street, this could also bring buget stricken graphics people to go to PC's and still use their once "Mac only" software.

[ September 17, 2004: Message edited by: Novaz04 ]

bedouin:
I read somewhere that this is really only emulation of command-line UNIX apps.  Their focus is on server applications.

There's a lot of marketing crap here, and not a lot of evidence.  You're better off waiting for the Darwine project to mature, and if the developer's schedule doesn't go too far off course, that may be around the same time the next version of VPC comes out.

And Mac-using graphics folks aren't using Macs because of the programs necessarily, but for the overall experience, which can never be emulated (usefully, anyway).

Beside, even if Transitive's product is an amazing piece of software, there will still be a place for VPC, since this is only emulating APIs not an entire OS.

worker201:

quote:Originally posted by bedouin:
And Mac-using graphics folks aren't using Macs because of the programs necessarily, but for the overall experience, which can never be emulated (usefully, anyway)
--- End quote ---


True, true, true.  But I can tell you that Illustrator CS behaves differently in OSX than it does in WinXP.  The difference is the way Windows and Macs handle really fucking huge files.  WinXP, which doesn't give access violation errors anymore, just thrashes around for hours and hours, effectively crashing the program.  The Mac is much more likely to give up, and tell you that your memory isn't going to cut it.

Case study:
Home: iBook, 900 MHz G3, 640 MB RAM
Work: Dell, 2.4 GHz P4, 1.5 GB RAM

Task - using Illustrator CS, open a PostScript file (over 1 million lines long, but only 25MB size) and save in AI format 1)with pdf compatibility or 2)without pdf compatibility.

RESULTS:
Work: both save operations resulted in crashes, of the kind where Illustrator remained unresponsive for about 2 hours, and was then force-quitted.

Home: Saving the file with pdf compatibility ran for 20 minutes and then gave a memory error, and Illustrator closed by itself.  Without pdf compatibility save was completed in about 25 minutes.

Winner - the Mac
(although I have a few un-nice things to say about the pdf format)

Holy fuck, I just majorly hijacked this thread!

One thousand pardons!

I've never used a virtualPC program on a Mac.  The only emulators I have used have been totally inadequate.  So my faith is extremely low.

Novaz04:
What's the Darwin Project

bedouin:
http://darwine.opendarwin.org//

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