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I am about to buy a Mac soon and I was wondering if anyone has any experience with metastock running on macs either using bootcamp, parallels or vmware? I would just like to know if there are any compatibility isssues and which way works best. Thanks in advance.
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The latest version of MetaStock (version 10+) will not work in any virtual Windows environment. You can use Mac hardware but the program must be run in the Windows operating system.
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While we cannot support technical issues running 9 and prior in a virtual Windows environment, I have heard people have had success doing this.
Version 10 uses a new product activation feature that will not work in a virtual environment, but version 9 and prior did not have this product activation.
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Pyradius wrote:The latest version of MetaStock (version 10+) will not work in any virtual Windows environment.
Just another reason for me to stick with 9.1, as if I needed one. VMing it is the only way I can think of to break MS out of its Win3.1-era design, where everything is confined to a single rectangular boundary. With a twin-Xeon Dell box driving 4 large LCD screens, this archaic behavior is pretty frustrating. Expecially for a big-number release like v10, MetaStock should have long ago had the ability to spawn as many child windows as necessary to take advantage of multiple-monitor systems. Excel can do it, Word can do it, other TA packages can do it - even every single lowly free Internet browser can do it. I'd love to see the percentage of 9.x users who felt motivated to move to v10 given the paucity of improvements; from the regular email pounding I get begging me to upgrade, I'm betting it's not huge. Equis did a great job of shackling legitimate owners though, with the "improved" licensing scheme. Can't even VM it anymore, huh? I'm clutching my 9.1 even tighter now. I'm still holding out hope that v11 is significantly more exciting and useful to paying customers who actually consider upgrading . . . . . . .
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I use MS 9 EOD on VMWare with an XP guest OS. It runs great, but VMWare is on a Windows XP box. It also runs great with the VMWare player on linux {FC7} with the VMWare files on a gigabit network share. I did try 10 on a virtual box and it didn't work.
I tried Virtual PC on my iMac {not intel chip} with an XP guest OS and the performance of the guest OS is terrible. The CPU is pegged at 100% constantly. This is a known issue because on their site they give tips on this. The tips were to basically sut down any unused services. I did all that and still the CPU was maxxed and they system was all but unusable.
I thought about upgrading to an Intel based Mac, but I don't use it enough.
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Hey,
haven't run it on a Mac; but have run it under XP under Parallels (MS 10 EOD) on AMD hardware. It will not work under VMWare on the same hardware at present (there appears to be deliberate detection code to prevent execution).
My Parallels isn't using the AMD virtualization CPU extensions; so I'd guess that it will work fine on a Mac under Parallels. This of course is not from personal experience as I have no handy Mac to test on... and I have
_not_ Activated the product yet...
Regards
Saliya
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