Appraisers' Free Forum

This is software, but not appraisal software... so, I put it here (move it if you think that's right).

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2321849,00.asp

And XP lovers got what they wanted—a very long goodbye. But do these people really know what they're getting? I doubt it.

I don't care if the techies think I don't know what I want or not... I know what I want (but, not necessarily what I'm getting).

Laughable

XP was the most stable of windows programs and that is a pretty low hurdle to jump. Vista is hated for the most part. I can wait for a while for whatever comes next...and I am confident that when that time comes, can you say Apple? Apple handles graphics so much better...

Until someone reduces the memory hog problem, Windows is the future IBM (remember when everyone said no one could compete with IBM?) What are they in the PC biz?

Apple is what I use. There's no commercial software available for it, so I use NeoOffice (Mac variant of OpenOffice) and roll my own. Despite years of harassment, I have been unable to get Dave Biggers' boys to compile Aurora for the Mac. Even though working on an iPhone mobile app, they won't do the full-blown Mac version of Aurora. (Not enough of a market.) I've even tried the "If you build it, they will come" argument with no success.

The lack of commercial forms software is what keeps Mac out of the appraisal biz. Bradford (ClickForms) began with the Mac, but switched to WinDoze and abandoned the Mac portion of its business.

This might be this forum's first zombie thread.

Jim Plante wrote:Apple is what I use. There's no commercial software available for it, so I use NeoOffice (Mac variant of OpenOffice) and roll my own. Despite years of harassment, I have been unable to get Dave Biggers' boys to compile Aurora for the Mac. Even though working on an iPhone mobile app, they won't do the full-blown Mac version of Aurora. (Not enough of a market.) I've even tried the "If you build it, they will come" argument with no success.

The lack of commercial forms software is what keeps Mac out of the appraisal biz. Bradford (ClickForms) began with the Mac, but switched to WinDoze and abandoned the Mac portion of its business.

Jim, the newer Mac (I believe it is Leopard) will run windows applications. You can load windows as a kind of auxiliary operating system and run any program. I saw it demonstrated in an Apple store... really cool.

Steve,
Google VirtualBox. It's an open source virtualizer published by Sun Microsystems, and it's free. To run Windows, you create a virtual machine inside the Mac. Load the Windows OS in the virtual partition, and it runs just like it normally does.

But whether one uses Parallels, VMFusion, VirtualBox, or Crossover, you still have to buy the Windows OS, and you still have to put up with all its BS. I downloaded the monster Windows 7 beta from MS (free until February) to try out VirtualBox. VBox works great. Windows ... eh.... 'bout like one would expect: It runs like windows. Windows 7 is not as much of a PITA as Vista, so maybe they've got a lot of Vista's problems fixed. But I'm not paying $200 or so for it; I don't need forms software that bad.

I do as many narratives as I do form appraisals, but I think I'd still consider Aurora for the Mac because of the other stuff in that package.