{"id":865,"date":"2011-01-13T11:41:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T18:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/?p=865"},"modified":"2011-01-13T11:41:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T18:41:48","slug":"running-rootsmagic-on-a-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/?p=865","title":{"rendered":"Running RootsMagic on a Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/RootsMagic-iMac.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-868\" title=\"RootsMagic-iMac\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/RootsMagic-iMac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Do RootsMagic, Personal Historian, Family Atlas, or your other products run on a Mac?<\/h2>\n<p>Yes \u2013 but with help.\u00a0 In fact, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/drewsmith-genealogy.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/rootsmagic-and-macintosh.html\" target=\"_blank\">many happy Mac users<\/a> of our software. \u00a0However, all of our software is currently designed to run on Windows operating systems. \u00a0That\u2019s where \u201cthe help\u201d comes in.<\/p>\n<h2>What do you mean by \u201cHelp\u201d?<\/h2>\n<p>All Macs built since 2006 use the same microprocessors as Windows PCs. \u00a0This means that you can install the Windows operating system on your Mac and run any Windows software. \u00a0There area also other non-Windows options available.<\/p>\n<h2>How do I install Windows on my Mac?<\/h2>\n<p>There are three products available that allow you to install Windows on your Mac: <strong>Apple Boot Camp<\/strong>, <strong>Parallels Desktop<\/strong>, and <strong>VMWare Fusion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>All three install the full Windows operating system and allow you to run any Windows application on your Mac. \u00a0You get the best of both worlds! \u00a0All three also require that you have a fully-licensed copy of Windows to install.<\/p>\n<h2>What if I don\u2019t want to install Windows on my Mac?<\/h2>\n<p>No problem. \u00a0There are two products available which allow some Windows software (including all of ours) to run on a Mac without actually having Windows: <strong>Wine<\/strong>, and <strong>CrossOver Mac<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Will you ever have actual Mac versions of your software?<\/h2>\n<p>It is certainly our intention. \u00a0We have many Mac users who would love this and we love to make our users happy. \u00a0We\u2019re just waiting for the necessary tools and technology to become available (which will hopefully be in the near-future).<\/p>\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<p>Apple Boot Camp \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\">www.apple.com<\/a> \u2013 Free<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tech      Support by Manufacturer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Parallels Desktop \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/\">www.parallels.com<\/a> &#8211; $79.95<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run      Mac &amp; Windows at Same Time<\/li>\n<li>Tech      Support by Manufacturer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>VMWare Fusion \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/\">www.vmware.com<\/a> &#8211; $79.95<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run      Mac &amp; Windows at Same Time<\/li>\n<li>Tech      Support by Manufacturer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wine \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winehq.org\/\">www.winehq.org<\/a> \u2013 Free<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run      Mac &amp; Windows at Same Time<\/li>\n<li>No      Windows CD Required<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CrossOver Mac \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeweavers.com\/\">www.codeweavers.com<\/a> &#8211; $39.95<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run      Mac &amp; Windows at Same Time<\/li>\n<li>No      Windows CD Required<\/li>\n<li>Tech      Support by Manufacturer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>RootsMagic products will also run on the Linux operating system under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winehq.org\/\">Wine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: All of our software has been tested and confirmed to work on all of these products. However, we can only offer technical assistance with our own software and not with other products or operating systems.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do RootsMagic, Personal Historian, Family Atlas, or your other products run on a Mac? Yes \u2013 but with help.\u00a0 In fact, we have many happy Mac users of our software. \u00a0However, all of our software is currently designed to run on Windows operating systems. \u00a0That\u2019s where \u201cthe help\u201d comes in. What do you mean by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}