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Running Estate Master on a Mac - Estate Master

 

Good news for Apple Mac users! The Estate Master product suite runs successfully on Macs, thanks to ‘virtual PC' technology offered by products such as VMware and Parallels. Since Mac computers do not have a Microsoft Windows environment as their core operating system, you will need to create a ‘virtual PC' on your Mac which will allow you to move between Mac and Windows based software seamlessly.

To run Estate Master on a Mac, we recommend using one of the following virtual PC software products:

  1. VMware Fusion 3  www.vmware.com/products/fusion/
  2. Parallels. www.parallels.com

Once the virtual PC has been created by one of the above products, the user will then need to install Microsoft Windows on the virtual PC (Windows XP, Vista or 7 Home edition is a minimum requirement).

Please Note: All Estate Master products, except Hotel Feasibility (HF), do not require Microsoft Excel on the Virtual PC to run.

    		  

    Running Estate Master on a Mac
     
      “We have decided to use Estate Master for our feasibility software. We believe it to be the most commonly accepted feasibility program that is well designed and easy to use. To allow us to use Estate Master we have installed a virtual machine program that accepts windows based programs to run on our Mac computers, called VM Fusion. This program is also very easy to use and runs smoothly even for consistent daily use. The Estate Master program works well with this virtual machine program and therefore we get the best of both worlds by allowing us to remain with Mac computers.”
    James Adam,  Director Portfolio Pty Ltd

    System Requirements to run a Virtual PC on a Mac

      Hardware requirements

    • Any Macintosh computer with an in Intel processor (1.66 GHz or greater).To run 64-bit operating systems in virtual machines, an Intl Core 2 or higher processor is required.
    • Minimum 1 GB of memory, 2 GB of memory is recommended.

    NOTE: Your Mac must have enough memory to run Mac OS X, plus the memory required for each guest operating system and for the applications on the Mac and in the virtual machine.

    • About 450 MB of disk space on the boot volume for parallels Desktop installation
    • About 700 MB of disk space for VMware Fusion
    • About 15 GB of disk space for each virtual machine

    Software Requirements

    • Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6
    • Mac OS X v10.5.2 Leopard or later
    • Mac OS X v10.4.11 Tiger or later

    To get the information on your Mac OX X version, type of processer and amount of memory, choose "About This Mac" from the Apple menu. The Apple menu is located in the upper-left hand corner. To open click the apple icon.

     


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