CodeWeavers Inc. on Wednesday announced plans to support Intel-based Macs. CodeWeavers makes CrossOver and CrossOver Office. The software allows Linux users to use software designed to work on Windows operating systems without needing to have Windows installed. What’s more, CodeWeavers offers custom software porting services based on CrossOver.
CodeWeavers is a corporate backer of Wine, open source software that lets Windows applications run on Linux systems not through emulation, but by implementing a compatibility layer that provides implementations of the Dynamically Linked Libraries (DLLs) Windows application depend on. (Wine itself is a recursive acronym that stands for “Wine Is Not an Emulator.) CrossOver is a proprietary version of Wine.
News source: Macworld
CodeWeavers is a corporate backer of Wine, open source software that lets Windows applications run on Linux systems not through emulation, but by implementing a compatibility layer that provides implementations of the Dynamically Linked Libraries (DLLs) Windows application depend on. (Wine itself is a recursive acronym that stands for “Wine Is Not an Emulator.) CrossOver is a proprietary version of Wine.
News source: Macworld
What's new in version 1.22:
- Improved Network Data Management Capabilities - With Dekart Private Disk Multifactor 1.22 the user can easily create and share a large number of encrypted folders across many computers, while keeping their content securely stored in one central location. By a simple insertion or removal of the key the user can easily control the shared folders, ensuring the complete security of the data.
- New language interfaces - In addition to the existing 10 language interfaces the program is now available in three more languages: Chinese, Portuguese and Swedish.
- Added support for ACOS1, ASECard and SMARTCOS smart cards, ACS AET60 BioCARDKey and ACS ADT60 BioSIMKey fingerprint scanners, which allows users to select from already wide variety of USB tokens, smart cards and biometric verification devices used to protect access to important information.
- Easier installation routines - Dekart Private Disk Multifactor 1.22 supports a multi-license scheme to install and use the software in corporate networks.
- Home users will find this new software useful for their desktop and notebook computers.
- Businesses and organizations can now use Dekart Private Disk Multifactor to maximize the security and convenience of their users, automate business processes and save costs.
How it works:
To open the encrypted disk, the user connects his hardware key to his computer, and is then prompted for a PIN code. If an invalid PIN is entered more than 3 times, the hardware key is blocked. After successfully entering the correct PIN (and, optionally, providing his biometric data), the software allows user to access his encrypted disk and read/write data to it. Whenever the user temporarily leaves the computer, he can restrict other people from viewing the contents of his private disk and temporarily block access to his disk by simply disconnecting the hardware key.
Features:
- Strong encryption - Dekart Private Disk Multifactor uses NIST certified Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm, the most powerful and secure algorithm known today, to encrypt the information.
- Multi-factor Authentication - users can be positively identified for access to their encrypted information via a wide range of hardware and biometric devices.
- Secure Workstation - Dekart Private Disk Multifactor disconnects the encrypted disk upon removal of the card, hardware token or USB drive.
- Easy and Automated access - No mistakes trying to manually enter complicated passwords.
- Hardware variety - the ability to choose from a large variety of supported devices, from different vendor' smart cards and tokens to ordinary USB flash drives, allows choosing the device which would best satisfy user's needs. Users can also use their existing hardware to store their private keys, which significantly saves cost for both home users and organizations.
- Supported operating systems: 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
It depends how you define an emulator though. It may not be a processor or hardware emulator, but it can be considered as a Windows API and environment emulator.
If you were to compare a Dual 2.0 Ghz G5 at the time of it's introduction with a DUAL processor Xeon "WORKSTATION" of the same time period from Dell.com, you would have found that the DELL was about a 1000 USD more expensive than the G5.
Apple does not offer "cheap" towers with cheap processors in them. If Apple did offer single processor G4 towers "and" if the G4 could have clocked up to to around 2.5 Ghz, then comparing against cheap Celeron systems from Dell with "comparable" features would make some sense.
You will never see Apple selling bottom of the barrel systems like Dell's Deal of the week bait and switch systems.
If you want a "bargain", look elsewhere but you should not forget the old adage, "you get what you pay for".
Apple did not switch to Intel because of prices but rather because of supply issues and the roadmaps of the companies into 2007 and beyond. In fact, some of the Intel CPUs may actually cost "more" but they may save some money in chipsets.
Either way my bro still paid double me, I could have gotten a laptop that would have blown his away for what he spent, or gotten 2 of my laptop. Quality really cant be argued, almost ALL pc's are gonna have the same general parts, both me and my bro have ATi cards for example. The only difference in my pc and his Mac is the price, THATS IT, even if mine dies Ill have the money to buy a 2nd and still have only spent the SAME as him.
On a side note at my company i spend my day fixing more Macs then dell "bait and switch" systems, and Dell out numbers Mac here like 3:1.
Your example refers to a raw throughput on floating point for a certain benchmark application. It is not indicitive of performance that you would get from extremely large datasets or in a real "multi-tasking" environment where you might have a number of applications running at the same time.
When those two variables are introduced into the situation, the theoretical throughput of the processor becomes insignificant.
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If you have a personal problem with him, take it elsewhere
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It it were that much like Windows, M$ would sue the pants off them so fast it would make your head spin.
LOL @ the person who is new to computers. Everything done in MS's GUI has already been done in CDE and Open Windows. LOL @ you thinking MS invented their own GUI LOL!
that's exactly the way CXOffice works. Fire up CXOffice, click 'Install software', insert the CD - done. CXOffice creates shortcuts, sets up file associations, handles software removal...
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