Additionally, audio devices will have a high latency as neither solution supports ASIO.Īctually you can install Windows on Intel Mac hardware with out OSX installed. The largest problem is that MIDI hardware is not supported. There are MANY limitations for audio/MIDI applications.

Note, that with the virtual machine approach - Fusion or Parallels - you are running inside of OSX. Our products run very well on a Bootcamp install of Windows. Once inside Windows using Bootcamp, you cannot get to OSX, you must reboot into OSX and visa versa. All bootcamp does is make it easy to partition your machine and provide a set of Windows drivers for the Mac hardware. In short, you can run Acid on a Mac you just have to buy a few extras (even shorter, No, you cannot take Acid out of the box and run it on a Mac using Mac OS).īootcamp does not run Windows through the Mac OS. I used to use VMware a few years back and it worked nicely (with that set-up, I was running a Linux computer with Windows XP as the slave). I think it runs Windows in a slave situation and the Mac OS is the master. Obviously, if you want to run windows on this Mac, you are going to have to purchase a version of Windows XP or Vista in order to run it.īoth of these programs work the same way they both run Windows through Mac OS meaning there is a window on the screen that is running Windows. If you do not want to use Bootcamp, you can use another application called VM Fusion. If you have Mac OS Leopard (10.5), Bootcamp should come installed standard with the Mac.ģ. You can purchase Bootcamp for Mac if you have Mac OS 10 (10.4.11 or earlier).Ģ. There are a few different ways to run Acid Pro on a Mac (including Version 7).ġ.

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