Re: I need windows, but don't want it!

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From: The Natural Philosopher
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:12

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Mark Hobley wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c> wrote:
>> So, given that the two apps I need are graphics intensive -- Corel draw 
>> and a flight sim - tell me which is better
> 
> You can probably run them in Wine these days, and sometimes applications 
> actually run faster in Wine, than on the Microsoft Windows platform.
> 
Yes.

I managed to get an OSX native  (rather than x windows) version of Open 
Office installed on this dire old Mac yesterday. Infinitely better than 
the CPU grabbing MS Office..

Open software moves along smartly enough.

And WINE looks like its not staying still, either.

> Mark.
>

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