http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Giveaway of the Day Forums Topic: using iMac, anyone? en Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:24:03 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1701#post-10595 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:16:41 +0000 Bobby 10595@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for the rapid responses, folks! </p> <p>Haven't tried Boot Camp, but I did purchase Parallels, which is a program allowing XP to run in a virtual environment on this Intel-based Mac. The activation process does not always work there, either. (Wish I had known about Boot Camp prior to purchasing Parallels!)</p> <p>On the bright side, all of my too-dang-expensive graphic manipulation programs (like Photoshop and PhotoImpact) work just fine within Parallels. The Giveaways are the only items that will not, and only because of the activation process. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1701#post-10590 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:00:57 +0000 Fred 10590@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>There´s a dual boot manager if you got an Intel Mac.<br /> It´s called Bootcamp and provided by Apple.<br /> With that tool you can create a NTFS partition and directly install WinXP on the Mac. :-)</p> <p><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/</a></p> <p>Great news. The boot manager will be part of the next version of OS X. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1701#post-10589 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:45:53 +0000 jinkazama 10589@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Mac programs? on Giveaway? maybe in the far future, i guess as most users have Windows OS insead of Mac... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1701#post-10588 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:36:01 +0000 Bobby 10588@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I recently upgraded to an iMac (yessss) and am still experiencing a learning curve, especially with GotD offers. I've already learned about the 'drag to applications folder' for some installations, and use StuffIT for others...</p> <p>but when I try to activate a Giveaway, it wants to bring up BlueTooth to phone home (not installed...using AirPort). This happens even within Parallels' virtual WindowsXP environment. </p> <p>What Mac program can I use to install and activate Giveaways, if any? Are any of the Giveaways suitable for iMac? If not, can the remarkably resourceful Giveaway team (shameless, I know) arrange to get iMac or 'nix programs? </p>