What do you miss from Windows that you would run in a VM?

[FearoftheNight]

What do you guys miss?

 

[sourceninja]

Miss? Nothing. Require for my job? IE6, IE7, crystal reports designer, and a few others that escape me.

 

[Kmax82]

Umm.. I think the only thing I miss is gaming. I have to use a VM for IE support, but that's the only reason why I use it right now. I have a BootCamp partition for gaming, but would love to be able to natively run the games without having to restart. Although, I've pretty much transitioned over to playing games solely on my Xbox360/PS3.

 

[timswim78]

Picasa, nothing on the Mac comes close for consumer photo organization, publishing, and minor editing.

Also, SAS and MS-Access.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: timswim78
Picasa, nothing on the Mac comes close for consumer photo organization, publishing, and minor editing.

Also, SAS and MS-Access.

The funny thing is it felt more "mac" like when I first used it, heh.

Right now, IE for testing. Film scanner software because it's old and only works w/ 10.3 and below I think. Games (but my iMac sucks anyway for that). Chrome for testing. uTorrent (tho I don't actually use it in a VM, just miss it).

 

[Kmax82]

I used to miss uTorrent, but the more I use Transmission, the more I find it suits my needs more than uTorrent did.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: timswim78
Picasa, nothing on the Mac comes close for consumer photo organization, publishing, and minor editing.

Also, SAS and MS-Access.

You don't think that it and iPhoto are pretty close?

As for me, I mostly just miss Flash not sucking, and Netflix streaming movies.

 

[Kaido]

Picasa and Office. I hate iPhoto and I tolerate Aperture 2. Office OTOH, I don't like on the Mac at all. I have Office 2004 for Mac, Office 2008 for Mac, and NeoOffice for Mac, and I don't like any of them. If I have to use Word or PowerPoint or whatever, I just boot up my VM and use Office XP (version 2002).

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: TheStu

Originally posted by: timswim78
Picasa, nothing on the Mac comes close for consumer photo organization, publishing, and minor editing.

Also, SAS and MS-Access.

You don't think that it and iPhoto are pretty close?

As for me, I mostly just miss Flash not sucking, and Netflix streaming movies.

As much as I like iPhoto, I find Picasa more useful than iPhoto as well. Picasa falls somewhere in between iPhoto and Aperture for me, iPhoto is a bit too basic, Aperture is bit over the top.

 

[suklee]

MyMobiler and gaming.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: Kmax82
I used to miss uTorrent, but the more I use Transmission, the more I find it suits my needs more than uTorrent did.

uTorrent properly does selective downloading though. And you can change DHT/peer seeding on a individual basis.

I also forgot to mention netflix streaming... that would be a big one because I plan on signing up again.

 

[Tyranicus]

Netflix streaming and games.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Nothing really.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: TheStu

Originally posted by: timswim78
Picasa, nothing on the Mac comes close for consumer photo organization, publishing, and minor editing.

Also, SAS and MS-Access.

You don't think that it and iPhoto are pretty close?

As for me, I mostly just miss Flash not sucking, and Netflix streaming movies.

As much as I like iPhoto, I find Picasa more useful than iPhoto as well. Picasa falls somewhere in between iPhoto and Aperture for me, iPhoto is a bit too basic, Aperture is bit over the top.

Maybe I am missing something then... What is it that all of you like about Picasa over iPhoto? I don't take that many photos, and so it might have something to do with that, but would yall mind elaborating as to what exactly it is about Picasa that makes it better?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: TheStu
Maybe I am missing something then... What is it that all of you like about Picasa over iPhoto? I don't take that many photos, and so it might have something to do with that, but would yall mind elaborating as to what exactly it is about Picasa that makes it better?

It's fast, it has nice visual effects and a great layout, the menus for editing are really easy, it has nice big buttons for exporting, etc. Unfortuantely it's also slow under Parallels and VMware, I think due to the emulated graphics and perhaps to the slightly slower virtual hard drive, so I just use Aperture. I'd pay good money for a Mac port of Picasa!

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Tyranicus
Netflix streaming and games.

Ooh I forgot about Netflix! Luckily it works okay in VMware...

I'd like to see them utilize something like a dual-GPU ATI 4870 X2 - one GPU for Mac, one GPU for Windows. If could hit a button and go fullscreen with full graphics on Crysis or Half-Life 2, I wouldn't ever need to dual-boot

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: TheStu
Maybe I am missing something then... What is it that all of you like about Picasa over iPhoto? I don't take that many photos, and so it might have something to do with that, but would yall mind elaborating as to what exactly it is about Picasa that makes it better?

It's fast, it has nice visual effects and a great layout, the menus for editing are really easy, it has nice big buttons for exporting, etc. Unfortuantely it's also slow under Parallels and VMware, I think due to the emulated graphics and perhaps to the slightly slower virtual hard drive, so I just use Aperture. I'd pay good money for a Mac port of Picasa!

I guess I just don't do enough with digital photos to have noticed. I always liked the editing under Picasa, but I never had a problem with it in iPhoto. That and I don't really export any of my photos, and the fact that iPhoto integrates with the rest of the OS so easily (Front Row, iTunes, Mail, iWeb, all of that) really sells it for me.

Now, if I was using Windows for more than Hulu, Netflix and gaming, then I would probably care, but I do know that I only ever use Picasa on Windows for photo organizing.

 

[AmigaMan]

Originally posted by: Kaido
If I have to use Word or PowerPoint or whatever, I just boot up my VM and use Office XP (version 2002).

I thought I was the only one like that. Office XP via Parallels just works for me albeit a bit of a memory hog. Couldn't stand Office 2004 on my Mac but I haven't tried 2008. The only reason I tolerated Office 2004 was because of Entourage which isn't that bad. I hated Office 2004's Word and Excel so I bought iWork 08 but it sucked too.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Office 2003 + Crossover would probably work?

 

[sourceninja]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Picasa and Office. I hate iPhoto and I tolerate Aperture 2. Office OTOH, I don't like on the Mac at all. I have Office 2004 for Mac, Office 2008 for Mac, and NeoOffice for Mac, and I don't like any of them. If I have to use Word or PowerPoint or whatever, I just boot up my VM and use Office XP (version 2002).

I recently fell in love with iWork. It's a wondrous product imho.

 

[Kmax82]

Originally posted by: sourceninja

Originally posted by: Kaido
Picasa and Office. I hate iPhoto and I tolerate Aperture 2. Office OTOH, I don't like on the Mac at all. I have Office 2004 for Mac, Office 2008 for Mac, and NeoOffice for Mac, and I don't like any of them. If I have to use Word or PowerPoint or whatever, I just boot up my VM and use Office XP (version 2002).

I recently fell in love with iWork. It's a wondrous product imho.

Yea.. I think it's a much better solution than Office 2008. I do wish they let you "Save As..." though, as I hate having to export to XLS, CSV, DOC, etc... I want native save support.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: AmigaMan

Originally posted by: Kaido
If I have to use Word or PowerPoint or whatever, I just boot up my VM and use Office XP (version 2002).

I thought I was the only one like that. Office XP via Parallels just works for me albeit a bit of a memory hog. Couldn't stand Office 2004 on my Mac but I haven't tried 2008. The only reason I tolerated Office 2004 was because of Entourage which isn't that bad. I hated Office 2004's Word and Excel so I bought iWork 08 but it sucked too.

Office 2008 is mostly the same as 2004...I just don't like how it does a big page, things never seem to "fit" right within the Window, etc. Office XP was the best one ever made imo...fast, quick access, compatible with everyone.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: sourceninja

Originally posted by: Kaido
Picasa and Office. I hate iPhoto and I tolerate Aperture 2. Office OTOH, I don't like on the Mac at all. I have Office 2004 for Mac, Office 2008 for Mac, and NeoOffice for Mac, and I don't like any of them. If I have to use Word or PowerPoint or whatever, I just boot up my VM and use Office XP (version 2002).

I recently fell in love with iWork. It's a wondrous product imho.

I like iWork a lot, but it's not 100% compatible with Office so I only use it for my own personal projects. Keynote is fabulous though - it's like PowerPoint HD!