[X4U] Mac Equivalents of Windows apps (was Re: Apple's move to Intel chips)

[Jeffrey Stormshak]

One other industry based software that is missing is in the CAD  
business; specifically Vendors such as AutoCAD, CADKey and ProE.   
These are big Applications that do NOT have Mac based software at all  
and would require VPC7 to work.

My experience has been that I was ONLY successful in having AutoCAD  
2000 execute cleanly within VPC7 on a Fully Loaded Mac G5.
Just my two cents concerning Windoze only Apps...

On Jun 10, 2005, at 1:43 AM, Timothy Luoma wrote:

>
> On Jun 9, 2005, at 7:20 AM, Judi Sohn wrote:
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>
>> On 6/7/05, Stroller <MacMonster at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>>
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>>> For the majority of Windows applications there is a Mac-native  
>>> equivalent,
>>>
>>
>> If you use VersionTracker as your measure, maybe. But the number  
>> of applications, particularly in business environments, that do  
>> not have Mac equivalents (or if they do they're 3 steps behind) is  
>> staggering.
>>
>
> At the risk of derailing any of the myriad of threads about Intel  
> vs PPC....
>
> What apps / types of apps are you thinking about?
>
> The only thing I haven't found a replacement for is ACT (calendar +  
> contact management).  Mac has them, but nothing as good.
>
>
>
>
>> And that doesn't even count all the stuff that runs off of web  
>> browsers that require Windows with no way to run in a Mac browser.
>>
>
> I must be strange, because I don't run into many sites at all that  
> require IE.  In fact, in a year with Mac I can think of less than a  
> handful of times that's come up.
>
> But again, my browsing habits may not be the norm.
>
> TjL
>
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