PC to Mac Conversion - Supported by Actinic V8

[MASTERforge]

Hello everybody,

Firstly I wish you all a good Christmas

I need to upgrade my laptop and I am considering switching from PC to mac. My laptop is nearly dead. It has got to the point where it stands on a couple of books so that air can flow under it and I leave the CD drive open in the hope that it will cool things down a little.

Its been so overworked that when it finally dies I will bury it in the garden and let it rest in peace. I will miss him but its time to move on.

I was thinking of switching to a mac because I hear they are more stable, less prone to viruses and made with heavy graphic use in mind. I am trying to see if my current applications will work in the mac environment or will i need to switch to the windows environment? That would make the move seem a little pointless!

Can Actinic Catalog V8 be run on the Mac Operating system?

Has anyone got a macbook pro? If so what do you think to it?

Thanks for taking the time to read my post and all have a good christmas!

[NormanRouxel]

Mac's won't run Actinic. It's a Windows operating system program.

However you can dial-boot a modern Mac between OS/X and XP / Vista. Major disadvantage is that you'd have to reboot to go between one environment and the other.

You can also run XP within a virtual PC on the Mac. This is a very elegant solution.

In both cases above you'd need an XP license in addition to the Mac supplied OS/X. A bit of googling should give you some case studies.

I use a similar system here to run several virtual machines in a single XP-Pro system. This way I can run Actinic 8.0.3 and 8.0.4, IE6 and IE7 all on the same computer with each one being just a click away.

[wfl]

At home I work on an Intel Mac but our production version at work is on Windows across our network.

Bootcamp (beta) is free but not the best option because it is an either or boot.

In OS.X I use Parallels & WXPSP2 for my Windoze environment. I also have Dreamweaver in OS.X on the machine. When the VM is running I can see the Site folders from DW so that is fine. The only thing I haven't managed to do is make the Actinic plug in work cross platform.

I transport sites between both locations on a stick.

It all works fine and there is no reason why you should not actually run Actinic live in either a VM or dual boot on an Intel Mac.