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Does Mac have something akin to Windows virtual environment where you run something but not really "run" it?


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I’m not a Mac expert, but of course there’s the ability to run Windows under Mac via Bootcamp or Parallels. You’re talking about running a virtual machine of Mac OS within Mac OS?


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No. Running a virtual machine of Windows on a Mac. Dual booting is not quite the same. I don't know enough about Windows emulation on the Mac to know it. I had one mac in my life and that was just long enough to learn the user interface so I could help customers set up their Mac on the internet when I worked for an internet provider. I bought a cheap Mac Mini and used it for a few weeks. Recently sold it off to a guy who wanted it just for nostalgia value in his personal Mac Hall of Fame. He has literally one of every model mac ever made, back to those first Apple computers. And as much money as he must have to buy one of everything Mac he STILL haggled me down!


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Originally Posted By: Janice & Bud
The only downfall to that is that if your mac is on the net it then, via then windows partition, becomes vulnerable to the world of PC viruses...the vast, vast majority of which are not known to macOS. And, consequently, you would have to load and maintain Windows antivirus software.

We are happy Mac BiaB users as are the other Mac users that I know on the forum.

J&B


Eventually you have to also consider the cost of the Windows license, which makes owning an actual PC almost worth the cost difference.

Other differences I've noticed;
Networking appears to still happen in a Mac world due to hardware.
Many 'not real recent' routers have trouble working with a Mac running Windows in Bootcamp, at least in a production VPN environment. These were not home routers, but routers costing $1000's.

Typically a remote Mac could connect to Windows machines inside the VPN just fine, but neither Windows machines nor Macs could connect to the Mac's (even when booted to Windows) inside the VPN without patching the router.
Patching a router in a true production environment, or even a corporate one, is not for the faint of heart.
I'm OK going as far as using Telnet or an interface and making changes to remote/production router configs(in my job description), but patching the whole thing gets moved up the ladder to upper level IT for me.
.. I'm not driving 60 miles to sit in front of a dead router while 150 people are calling me if things go bad. <grin>

Anyway, lots to consider with running Windows on yer Mac.
Probably works fine for many, just stuff I've noticed over time.


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We've made a Mac and PC version of BiaB for almost 30 years, and plan to continue that.

The PC version has been significantly ahead of the Mac version, except for the last few years, where the Mac version has caught up. One indication that it has caught up, is the nature of the requests for the Mac version. Instead of talking about BiaB, they talk about other programs like PowerTracks or RealBand, which we don't make for Mac. That reads like progress to me, because we used to hear about missing features in the Band-in-a-Box Mac version, but we added them, and the programs are very close now.

And the BIAB Mac version is better in some respects (driver latency and plugin support for examples ) and the musical content is and has always been identical (which seems like the most important point to me).


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Thank you, Peter.

You might want to look at the BIAB for Mac forum where I posted an innocuous question that was rather hijacked into a discussion of deficiencies of BIAB for Mac and 64-bit. My question was simply on where to find the build number in the Mac version (that I just bought).


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