Compatiability to run Windows on New Intel Macs

Is it the plan for new Intel Macs to be able to run Windows-based programs without having to run emulation programs like VPC?

I work in Environmental Science and the amount of
programs for presenting and manipulating data are few
and far between.
Have you looked here for software that you might be able to use?
Wouldn't this approach open up a lot of avenues for
Apple and make switching to Apple easier for people?
Perhaps, or it could make people think of a Mac as just an expensive Windows PC. And developers could say, "If Macs run Windows, then let's save some money by not making a Mac version of our software." And consumers will probably post questions here about how their Windows program won't run right on their Mac, or call Apple asking for Windows support, or get all upset because Windows crashed their Mac and erased all their data and blame it on Apple...
Apple has said that they will do nothing to prevent Windows from running on Intel-based Macs, but they will also do nothing to facilitate it. This means that if it is at all possible to run Windows on your Intel-based Mac, doing so will be totally unsupported by Apple.

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I am about to finally migrate completely to MAC with purchase of a MAC mini to replace my old Tosh laptop. In the past year I have managed to minimise the use of this laptop. Its only function now is to run SKYPE with my Linksys CIT200 cordless skype phone.
Antyone know if I can run windows on an Intel MAC mini and successfully load up the driver for this phone?
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Might look at:
http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/
Also might look in these boards:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=687
Joe

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Hi there,
I have a 20" iMac G5 at home, a Macbook and now at work, I am thinking of getting a 20" iMac Intel.
Now, I will need to run programs such as matlab and many other data/scientific programs at work - in windows mode. Everyone else runs things in windows and also they only have a site licence for the windows products.
Thus, I figure I either get a DELL or get an iMac. I am just wondering what problems people are having running windows programs on the mac.
Secondly, which application is better for running windows? Can I use parallels or something? I want to be able to switch between the OS systems easily and if at all possible - drag and drop from Mac OSX (email attachment for example) into windows or vice versa...
Any tips appreciated.
Martin
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If all the software you intend to use requires Windows, then there is little point in buying a Mac just to run Windows' applications. It would make more sense to buy a Windows' computer.
You can run Windows on a Mac in one of several ways. You can install Apple's Boot Camp software which lets you boot the computer directly into Windows and essentially be running Windows as if on Windows' hardware.
You can purchase Parallels Desktop for Mac which is virtualization software that allows you to install many different guest OSes including all extant versions of Windows and several flavors of Unix/Linix. Parallels is nearly as fast as Boot Camp except for 3D video which does not use hardware acceleration as does Boot Camp. Thus, video intensive applications such as games will not work as well as they would running under Boot Camp. However, Parallels enables you to run the guest OS in a separate window concurrently with OS X. Boot Camp requires booting directly into Windows.
Last, there is CrossOver (currently in beta) that allows you to run Windows applications without actually installing Windows. However, it suffers from the same video problems as Parallels. Furthermore, you can only use Windows' applications that have been "converted" to work with CrossOver and those applications must be downloaded from the developers (Codeweavers.)
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I bought a full version of Vista about two years ago. I removed it from the Intel Mac I had originally installed it on. Indeed, I've replaced the HD it was on, but for reasons other than removal of Vista.
I installed Vista successfully on a new Intel Mac, but it won't accept my Product Key.
I followed the instructions and tried the online activation. After entering a very long string of numbers, I received a curt, automated, "We do not recognize your registration number. Please call back at another time." The line then disconnected.
Various searches online have produced no result. The Microsoft help page has an article on registration, but all searches from it for my issue lead me back to that same page.
I assume that the fact that the OS was registered on the other machine has caused a problem, but I note that the license lets me install the OS on one machine. This, I am doing. As the OS was sickeningly expensive, I'd like to reinstall to get some use out of it.
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That's sort of what I feared.
Considering that almost no one buys a "full license" to Windows other than factory installed on a machine or as an upgrade, I figured the problem I had would generally be unusual, except for people who installed it new on an Intel Mac, which is why I posted the question here.
I've not been able to find on Microsoft's help page a phone number to call Microsoft about this issue, and, as I said, all purported web-based solutions send me right back to the very same web page about product registration. If they weren't a monopoly, they wouldn't be able to get away with this.

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Okay.. I know... I have several posts going here as I have several issues I am trying to solve rather simultaneously. Thanks for being patient with me.
I have my old 1.25 Ghz PowerPC Mac Mini running 10.4.11 and all was well and happy. Then Security Update 2007-009 happened and all went to ....well... you know and, yes, it was bad! Went to Apple, got it running of sorts as they re-installed the OS, but they used an old version of OS X. (10.4.7. Can you believe that?) This caused other problems. It continues to have all sorts of difficulties, as I have had to get applications to re-recognize that the computer is back up to 10.4.11. Currently, I am struggling with trying to get iTunes to access it's music folders on the external hard drives. Realized that I hadn't even gotten around to figuring out whether or not some of my other applications work, like some of the games and third party, etc.
The thing is I got a new Intel Mac Mini for Christmas and it's still in the box because as I suspected I need to get my old mac perfect again before I can even think about migrating stuff over to the new Mac. But.. here's the thing... it's starting to look pretty much like 2008 will come and go before I can get the old Mac ready enough to take the new Mac out of the box. This really is rather silly!
Now... I can't get the old Mac to see the music and it made me think. I have all of my iTunes music and iPhoto backed up on an external hard drive (I used Apple's "Back-up" software to do it) and in addition to this two complete copies of the iTunes music and iPhoto photos albums on two separate external hard drives. Should I just forget using migration assistant? Can I get my music and my photo albums into the new mac directly from the external hard drives?
Or...can I use "back up" to restore the music and photos into the new Mac?
I am starting to think that the best way to get my new Mac running is not risk it by attaching it to my old Mac. What do you think?
Thank you so much for any advice or experiences you can give. -Charlotte

I know that I am vacillating back and forth as to what to do. Thanks so much for being patient with me. All of your advice is really appreciated and I am at least closing in on deciding on my strategy. Probably will follow your first response advice, especially considering that some of the third party apps may not have updates to handle Leopard quite yet. Anyway... it's a good strategy since everything is on the externals anyway.
You can say that fine.
Ha ha ha.... yes, I've been messing around with computers since my parents bought our first Apple computer back in 1979. Just like you, I've never had a serious problem with any of the computers and we've had them all, running all sorts of things from the Original Apple and Apple IIc (which my parents still have and it still runs!) to the Commodore and all the Windows permeations and then on to the Macs running Jaguar, Panther and Tiger, probably because we've always been careful with the machines and what we install in them and how we update them. I have always kept my computers on UPS' and un-plug them when storms brew outside. As it is I am still using my eight year old Windows 98 computer, (for games mostly) and it still runs quicker than most peoples windows pcs and it's only a 740 Megahertz.
I haven't had to re-install anything, especially on this lovely little Mac Mini until now and wouldn't have in this situation, had I known more. I had taken the little Mac Mini in for a Procare "Tune-Up," only four days before the big up-date disaster. Not sure what they did to my mac in the tune-up but the guy gave me back the machine assuring me that the computer was perfect with no problems in answer to my asking "were they sure?" Even after the Genius Bar techs at the Apple Store re-installed the OS to fix the big problems it seems that no one ever thought to run verify disk. Had the Genius Bar techs at the time of the tune-up done this, or at least told me to do this, the last security update would not have wrecked so much havoc. It was only after I got the machine back from Apple that second time that I found that the directory had been corrupted when I ran disk verify. Actually it is amazing that I have had this little Mac Mini for so long and so not have had any problems on it that I would be able to go so long without having to know this really pretty important aspect of keeping one's mac in good running shape. I had been running maintenance scripts and permissions verify and repair and thought that was all there was to it. Silly! You know... that really is a testimony of how nice these little machines are.
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I would like to know if Windows 98 can run on a new Intel-iMac.
I now have a Power Mac G4 with a SCSI card used for a Nikon dia scanner. If I switch to an iMac I cannot, obviously, use a SCSI card anymore but I could use a USB/SCSI converter that I already have. The problem is that the scanner/converter combination works only with Windows 98, hence my question.
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is it possible to upload, and use, a windows 98 operating system?
Both Parallels Workstation and VMWare Fusion will run Windows 98.
Paralles substitutes Booth Camp or sits on top of it?
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I intend to get my dad and my sis (upgrade from her old iMac G3) each a new Intel Mac mini Core Solo.
I understand that the new Intel Mac mini shares the ram memory between the processor and the "in-built" graphics... also understand from an Apple KB docu that it is best to pair the same ram to maximise efficiency or something...
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Playing older projectors on new intel macs

hi
I recently got a new mac intel laptop and found that none of
my projector movies are supported by the system. This includes
pieces made between 1998 and 2006 on versions of director upto 8.5.
Actually a piece I finished in Febuary of this year is showing as
not supported!
Is all this work obselete now? Are there any third party
solutions to getting these works to still play - other than
watching them on an older computer. Or would they work if I
republished the movies from the source files with an uptodate
version of Director?
thanks in advance for any help
nick

quote:
Originally posted by:
Nick Crowe
...This includes pieces made between 1998 and 2006 on
versions of director upto 8.5. Actually a piece I finished in
Febuary of this year is showing as not supported!
nick
Did you mean to say "versions of Director AFTER 8.5"?
Director versions up to 8.5 were only capable of creating
projectors that ran in Mac OS 9.x or below. On recent Mac computers
running OSX, OS9 was able to be run in an emulation mode called
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newer systems (I don't have a machine to test). Of course you need
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