Frame on the Mac

[Jenny Greenleaf]

I run Frame 9 on a MacBook Pro with Windows XP Pro running under VMWare Fusion. No problems here!

I have a setup similar to Rick's.  I simply put the window in which Windows is running on one display (where it looks and acts just like Windows) and then keep Mac OS X visible on my laptop screen. I can drag and drop, cut and paste between them. One wireless keyboard and one wireless mouse works for both. 

I'm not really sure why, but I have a lot fewer problems running Windows this way than I ever did with a company-issued PC. The MacBook is my own and I take it to a client site every day. I use one of their monitors, and I keep an extra power supply and HDMI dongle onsite. 

Jenny Greenleaf
Portland, OR



On Jul 25, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Tori Muir wrote:

> Brag #2:  my team use Frame 9 on Windoze XP  on Intel Macs running Parallels (another virtual machine program like VMWare Fusion). Works flawlessly, although it does take a few minutes to boot up. But since it can boot up Windows in the background while doing other things on the Mac, it's not a big problem.  Like Rick, we have no performance complaints.
> 
> Tori Muir
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> On 7/24/10 6:50 AM, Dr Rick Smith wrote:
>> On Jul 23, 2010, at 9:31 AM, boenat at gedok.com wrote:
>> 
>>   
>>> Hi, there,
>>> 
>>> we here were working as long as possible with our old Framemaker 7 on the mac. Adobe got us on the wrong foot with discontinuing Framemaker on the mac... :-(
>>>     
>> 
>> Brag: I'm using Frame 9 on an Intel Mac Pro
>> Admission: It's running on Windows 7 using VMWare Fusion.
>> Another admission: I'm a technical geek. I also have two separate displays and enough RAM to run two operating systems.
>> 
>> In any case, let me ask how others are running PC versions of Frame on the Mac. For a while I wondered why so many people still use Frame 7, but I assume it's because lots of people still run it on a Mac.
>> 
>> My own solution might not work for everyone. Installation is nasty, since you have to install VMWare, Windows, and Framemaker, and keep Windows up to date as well as OS X.
>> 
>> Once it's running, it is as if I am using two separate computers with the same keyboard and mouse. One display shows Windows and the other shows OS X. I find it easiest to keep each OS on a separate display.
>> 
>> I have no performance complaints. There are practical disadvantages since I am essentially running two separate computers, each with its own hard drive. I use Microsoft's free SyncToy to keep an up to date copy of my files on the Windows hard drive and in the OS-X file system (where Time Machine backs it up).
>> 
>> VMWare also has a mode called "Unity" in which the PC applications appear in their own windows on the Mac desktop. I tried that briefly, but found it confusing. Others might have better luck.
>> 
>> Rick Smith.
>> 
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