Now I just need to get my tactrix cable. I'm hoping I don't run into any driver issues with the virtual desktop, I've heard other people have had good luck with it. Anyone else tune on a Mac? Also, esper... you have PMs
Oh man you had my hopes up here but then i saw you were running parallels. I wanna open source with my powerbook g4! I would even just settle for being able to sync my accessport with my mac like said it should be able to on the box! Congrats though, the envy runs deep.
I've heard of mixed results using ecuflash on macs: http://www.openecu.org/index.php?title=EcuFlash What I've read so far is that it's functional for data logging. I haven't heard of any confirmed reading or flashing. But you can open the .hex file and edit it. I decided I would go the parallels (or bootcamp if need be) rought since I'm on an x86. Edit: ======= Never mind, looks like the Mac version of that is x86 support only too. Sorry
Yup, I am right now in fact. I'm using VMWare Fusion. Also, with enough screwing around, you can get the Linux one to run natively. It's a good bit slower running it that way though.
I have a PowerBook from work, it Logs, Reads, Flashes just like a windows notebook in a BootCamp instance. I have not used it through parallels (I assume the additional overhead would drain the battery a bit faster? *shrug*). I haven't tried it, but there is supposed to be a Mac native release of Enginuity (yes, I know it's java and that is not inherently OS specific, but the serial drivers/libraries and tactrix cable drivers are).
Yep, as shown above, it's not too tough. EcuFlash is released natively for the Mac as well, and includes the drivers for the Tactrix cable as it does on Windows.
I have all the stuff, though I haven't done anything yet. What I'm doing is running Boot Camp so I have a full version of Windows on another partition.
another mac failure. Just kiddin Hope you can get it working. Is bootcamp something that emulates a pc?
bootcamp is a package offered by mac that automatically partitions your hard drive and installs needed drivers so you can dual-boot windows (XP or Vista) with OSX on intel (x86) equiped macs. Parallels/VM ware are virtual desktops that allow you to run windows virtually within the OSX environment. The best of both worlds? Kind of, virtual desktop is running kind of slow, but it's still pretty slick. Thanks! I might have to take you up on that. I'm glad there's no hard feelings :cheers2:
The real "best of both worlds" is using the feature that both VMWare and Parallels offer, to initialize your Boot Camp partition in a virtual machine. If you already have a Boot Camp partition set up, you can create a VM out of it, and choose to run it either natively or virtualized. It's great, I install games and patches patches while in the VM, then reboot to Boot Camp to natively use the hardware to play 3d accelerated games. I find that things are very fast under VMWare. I can't even tell a difference speed-wise from running normal, 2d apps. Do you have 2 gigs of RAM in your machine? That will make a huge difference.
That's next on the chopping block. I kind of knew it would be as bogged down as it is with just the 1gig. Aren't the 3rd gen macbooks capable of 4gigs? That's the route I think I'm going to go.
I'm not sure, but 2g has been more than enough in my 2.16GHz Macbook Pro. I dedicate 1 gig to the VM in most cases, and it cruises right along. Even boots faster virtualized than it does under Boot Camp.
oops, looks like 2gigs is the max. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303721 oh, well. That should still be fine. Edit: I got mine in late '07, so it looks like I'm good up to 4gigs like I thought :biggrin: http://support.apple.com/specs/macbook/MacBook_Late_2007.html
I used 2 gigs on a standard macbook and it was strangling all the time, currently on a 3 gig of ram macbook pro and still hit the limits every day. It all depends on what you run I guess, I usually have flash, indesign, bridge, illustrator and photoshop, itunes, mail, adium and 35 mozilla tabs all going at the same time though.
Hah, yeah, that will do it! I'm usually running Camino with about 5-10 tabs, Adium messenger, iTunes, and a VM at most.
my worst habit by far is the tabs. I just always have at least 20 of them going for some reason. that and that I love cross using illustrator and photoshop and flash simultaneously.
I'm going to grab CS3 from school with the student discount ($200-$300!) so I can start doing more with my photography and maybe get into shooting raw. Then I shall know your pain.
Congrats on the possible tuning, a little off topic but what are others reading/learning how to tune with?
I ran it a few months ago on Ubuntu (should work on any distro with the right packages and settings). I ran the cvs version and recall having to jump through a few small hoops before getting it going. PM or post in this thread if you have any questions.
Same here. Unity FTW. RAM is always the key point in VMs. More is for sure better. If you have a MB or MBP that can take 4gb crucial has it for $130. Hard to pass that up!
Maybe you guys should just buy a PC. /thread :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin: (Sorry, someone had to do it)...
