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Hi All,
OK, I'm a Mac zealot, but...
I run a Mac mini in the observatory to run the PMX and data acquisition software natively under OSX using The Sky X. I have to run windows (from the Bootcamp partition) under VMware to talk to the focuser. This setup works really well.
I have setup my laptop (older Macbook Pro) under a similar setup. The best thing about this is that you can setup multiple virtual machines to run various tasks, so you could run a Win7 machine, a Bootcamp machine and even a WinXP machine.
If I want to run my planetary camera (Firewire 800), I have to reboot the computer into Windows rather then run the VM, as the VM won't talk to FW accessories.
I do find that when I do this (hard boot to bootcamp) the battery life on the Macbook is appalling and it gets quite hot.
Cheers
Stuart
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