Jamie:
You can run Nvivo on a Mac using Parallel Desktops.
I have it installed on my MacPro.
The only negative is speed; otherwise no problems.
It is better than Bootcamp because you don't have to exit but just
swtich between Windows and Mac without rebooting.
Carl
On 23-Oct-09, at 2:42 PM, Jamie Furniss wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'm curious if anyone has experience using NVIVO on a mac?
>
> The two options, since there is no native mac version of the
> software, seem to be Boot Camp or a virtual environment. Boot Camp
> doesn't seem like a very good option to me, since it makes flipping
> back and forth between NVIVO and my word or other docs I'm working
> on difficult. As for the virtualPC-type options ("parallels," etc),
> some people at my department warned me that NVIVO might be too
> resource intensive to run in this way...
>
> I've actually been thinking of getting a cheap, small PC such as a
> Dell on which I could run only NVIVO. Then as I'd work on my mac I'd
> have NVIVO running beside me on another computer...seems cumbersome
> though.
>
> Cheers,
> Jamie Furniss
> Department of International Development, University of Oxford
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