Re: Going back to 32 bit from 64 bit

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:40:39 -0400 
Matthew Gillen <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> I can't say it's pretty, but it's a hell of a lot less resource intensive 
> (esp. memory) than running a VMWare instance with a whole windows OS loaded 
> (also doesn't require a Windows OS license). 

Agreed 100%. The only reason I have Windows XP installed on my laptop 
is that my wife wanted to use RealPlayer, and only the Windows version 
could validate because it used some type of ActiveX component. 

> Crossover Office tries pretty hard to make it so you can set things up without 
> writing a lot of scripts yourself.  It's certainly a nice packaging job, if 
> you don't mind coughing up the money. 
Yes. I have Crossover Office installed on my desktop specifically to 
run MS Office, but now since OpenOffice is much better, my needs have 
changed. 


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