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GIS on a mac... Ryan Danby 09-21-2007
`--> Re: GIS on a mac... alvaro.anguix@g...11-08-2007
Posted by Ryan Danby on September 21, 2007, 4:02 pm
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 Hi folks - Does anyone have experience using either ArcGIS, IDRISI, or
MapInfo on a Mac under Boot Camp, Parallels, or VMfusion? I'm wondering if
there's any issues I should be aware of before I try it, or if they run just
as they would on a dedicated Windows machine. Thanks...




Posted by Karl Hennermann on September 22, 2007, 2:29 pm
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 Ryan Danby wrote:
> Hi folks - Does anyone have experience using either ArcGIS, IDRISI, or
> MapInfo on a Mac under Boot Camp, Parallels, or VMfusion? I'm wondering if
> there's any issues I should be aware of before I try it, or if they run just
> as they would on a dedicated Windows machine. Thanks...
>

A colleague recently tried ArcGIS under Parallels, it turned out it is
way too slow to consider it for serious work.

Regards
Karl

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Karl Hennermann
IT Officer - Spatial Data Research
School of Environment and Development
The University of Manchester

Posted by Tore Halset on October 5, 2007, 5:45 pm
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> Hi folks - Does anyone have experience using either ArcGIS, IDRISI, or
> MapInfo on a Mac under Boot Camp, Parallels, or VMfusion? I'm wondering if
> there's any issues I should be aware of before I try it, or if they run just
> as they would on a dedicated Windows machine. Thanks...

Tried uDig? http://udig.refractions.net/

Works great on a mac without booting to windows.

- Tore.

Posted by <tongxiaofeng on October 6, 2007, 12:34 pm
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maybe you can try QGIS
http://www.qgis.org/

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> > Hi folks - Does anyone have experience using either ArcGIS, IDRISI, or
> > MapInfo on a Mac under Boot Camp, Parallels, or VMfusion? I'm wondering if
> > there's any issues I should be aware of before I try it, or if they run just
> > as they would on a dedicated Windows machine. Thanks...
>
> Tried uDig?http://udig.refractions.net/
>
> Works great on a mac without booting to windows.
>
> - Tore.



Posted by David Drum on October 11, 2007, 9:25 pm
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> Hi folks - Does anyone have experience using either ArcGIS, IDRISI, or
> MapInfo on a Mac under Boot Camp, Parallels, or VMfusion? I'm wondering if
> there's any issues I should be aware of before I try it, or if they run just
> as they would on a dedicated Windows machine. Thanks...

I'm at the NACIS conference and have seen at least one person run ArcGIS under
Parallels without difficulty. Someone I spoke with said there's about a 10%
performance hit, which is to be expected.

David


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