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Does the pending Intel announcement mean Macs could run win-doze programs natively?
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DVGuy
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Jun 4, 2005, 09:22 PM
 
Does this mean that Mac users won't need to use an emulator to run win-doze programs, or at least many of the steps in the emulation will be eliminated?
     
tooki
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Jun 4, 2005, 09:43 PM
 
If it happened -- which need not be discussed in yet another thread -- it would only remove one hurdle to allowing them to run, namely emulation (which is the big CPU hog). It would still require a virtual machine environment and a copy of Windows. Of course, Apple would never do that, since it would hurt Mac software development.

Continue this discussion in the existing thread in the Lounge.

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