MacBook

[vetta64]

My wife wants to get a macbook pro which I thought was a great idea until I though "hey what if continuum dooesn't work."

 

This is really the deciding factor for me.

 

Will I be able to use continuum or will I have unnecessary difficulty in using it on a macbook.

[»doc flabby]

The easiest way to keep playing continuum on a Mac is to buy parallels ($80, but you're be able to run any other windows application you might need as well, so its not a bad investment)

or install BootCamp on your mac.

 

You're have to buy windows 7 as well which starts at around $100 iirc

 

http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/

Edited April 12, 2010 by doc flabby

[Hakaku]

Lynx also managed to achieve it by running continuum through wine:

http://krslynx.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=59

[Kai Ossa]

For best performance, use Bootcamp. It's default utility app that's already part of OS X. It basically partitions your HDD and allows you to do a clean install of Windows.

[etrigan]

For best performance, use Bootcamp. It's default utility app that's already part of OS X. It basically partitions your HDD and allows you to do a clean install of Windows.

 

 

Bit of a late reply, but I agree completely with Kai and others, Bootcamp is the way to go.

 

Parallels will work, and you can indeed play simple directx games fullscreen, but I experienced a strange frame lag while playing, and it absolutely drove me crazy. Whats nice about parallels though is that it can run a session from a bootcamp partition. So you can try both if you wish.

 

BTW XP, Vista, and Win7 all run great on Apple hardware via bootcamp. So you will get a nice experience.

 

Also you may want to consider a separate USB keyboard if you plan to play on her macbook, the arrow keys on macbooks tend to be too close together and seem a bit flimsy for the type of mashing subspace playing throws at them.