Genetix, yes , your right. While I was "away" i think i mentioned I met a nice bloke who was a mathamatician for a banks anti fraud dept. He also had a mechanical engineering lic and had made some very cool stufff. One thing he built from scratch was an avacardo sorter. It was for a friend of his. He used load cells and other tricks and saved his friend money because he no longer had to pay as many people to sort the fruit(is it a fruit ?) The last xchip he programmed wqs an IBM 8088 or 8086, I can't remember exactly. He used Assebly . I think he wqas about to buy an arduino until i gave him the propellor manual to read. He was impressed with the prop. I got the imnpression that he has too much going on to worry about chips. While I was busy 18 hours qa day doing math or chem he was hammering away using Visual Studio for his work. He had a Mac Laptop. He told me that thje virtual program he used was called Parallel , its for the mac and is about $99. He has never had any problems with it.
You know for about $150 - $180 you can buy a terrific laptop on ebay ! There is a particular Bios that the mac OS likes. As I have run MAc OS on Virtual Box, I would not mind making my own Mac. I just like the OS !
Genetix, yes , your right. While I was "away" i think i mentioned I met a nice bloke who was a mathamatician for a banks anti fraud dept. He also had a mechanical engineering lic and had made some very cool stufff. One thing he built from scratch was an avacardo sorter. It was for a friend of his. He used load cells and other tricks and saved his friend money because he no longer had to pay as many people to sort the fruit(is it a fruit ?) The last xchip he programmed wqs an IBM 8088 or 8086, I can't remember exactly. He used Assebly . I think he wqas about to buy an arduino until i gave him the propellor manual to read. He was impressed with the prop. I got the imnpression that he has too much going on to worry about chips. While I was busy 18 hours qa day doing math or chem he was hammering away using Visual Studio for his work. He had a Mac Laptop. He told me that thje virtual program he used was called Parallel , its for the mac and is about $99. He has never had any problems with it.
You know for about $150 - $180 you can buy a terrific laptop on ebay ! There is a particular Bios that the mac OS likes. As I have run MAc OS on Virtual Box, I would not mind making my own Mac. I just like the OS !
Good luck finding engineering software for Mac OS. Most software runs on Windows but some support Linux. Also, this software can be demanding so it will be slow or might not even work on low end computers, especially laptops.
yes it was amusng seeing him using a flash lookink laprtop but running parallel (windows) for work . He claimed ir t didn'tnrt slow down him at a tall/FONT
yes it was amusng seeing him using a flash lookink laprtop but running parallel (windows) for work . He claimed ir t didn'tnrt slow down him at a tall/FONT
He can claim all he wants but as they say in quality, "Only in God do we trust; everyone else must provide data".
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You know for about $150 - $180 you can buy a terrific laptop on ebay ! There is a particular Bios that the mac OS likes. As I have run MAc OS on Virtual Box, I would not mind making my own Mac. I just like the OS !
Good luck finding engineering software for Mac OS. Most software runs on Windows but some support Linux. Also, this software can be demanding so it will be slow or might not even work on low end computers, especially laptops.
He can claim all he wants but as they say in quality, "Only in God do we trust; everyone else must provide data".