Comments on: Create you next church website with an apple http://www.fromtheclay.com/ministry-ideas/create-you-next-church-website-with-an-apple/ Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:07:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: Brandon Gross http://www.fromtheclay.com/ministry-ideas/create-you-next-church-website-with-an-apple/#comment-201 Brandon Gross Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:48:13 +0000 http://www.fromtheclay.com/2007/01/18/create-you-next-church-website-with-an-apple#comment-201 Doug, <br /><br />You wouldn't be the first to ask this question. There are a couple of reasons we do not have a mac version of Nspire. The major reason is for the lack of market. Now, I understand there are churches out there that use macs and would love something really geared to them, but the second reason is the cost of transferring the code to mac would barely pay for itself. It's unfortunate but true. <br /><br />But on another note... I'm not going to leave you hanging. I own a macbook core 2 duo and I can run Nspire on it. My friend Josh and me got the program Parallels and a copy of windows to put on our macs. Parallels runs windows faster on my mac than windows ran on my previous computer (Dell Inspiron 9300). Parallels even has a feature in its beta called Coherence mode, which runs a windows program without having to show the windows desktop. It's really cool. <br /><br />Like I said earlier, you are not the first to ask this question. So, a while back Josh and me wrote a 2 part series on putting Nspire on a Mac. You can read over those posts here:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.insidenspire.com/http:/www.insidenspire.com/2006/12/12/nspire-on-a-mac" rel="nofollow">Part 1: Nspire on a Mac</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.insidenspire.com/http:/www.insidenspire.com/2006/12/14/nspire-on-a-mac-part-2" rel="nofollow">Part 2: Nspire on a Mac</a><br /><br />Thanks for the comments Doug. If you have any other questions leave another reply and I will get back with you. Hope this helps. Oh, and if you want to look further into Parallels you can go to their website <a href="http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Thanks! Doug,

You wouldn’t be the first to ask this question. There are a couple of reasons we do not have a mac version of Nspire. The major reason is for the lack of market. Now, I understand there are churches out there that use macs and would love something really geared to them, but the second reason is the cost of transferring the code to mac would barely pay for itself. It’s unfortunate but true.

But on another note… I’m not going to leave you hanging. I own a macbook core 2 duo and I can run Nspire on it. My friend Josh and me got the program Parallels and a copy of windows to put on our macs. Parallels runs windows faster on my mac than windows ran on my previous computer (Dell Inspiron 9300). Parallels even has a feature in its beta called Coherence mode, which runs a windows program without having to show the windows desktop. It’s really cool.

Like I said earlier, you are not the first to ask this question. So, a while back Josh and me wrote a 2 part series on putting Nspire on a Mac. You can read over those posts here:

Part 1: Nspire on a Mac

Part 2: Nspire on a Mac

Thanks for the comments Doug. If you have any other questions leave another reply and I will get back with you. Hope this helps. Oh, and if you want to look further into Parallels you can go to their website here. Thanks!

]]> By: Doug http://www.fromtheclay.com/ministry-ideas/create-you-next-church-website-with-an-apple/#comment-200 Doug Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:01:24 +0000 http://www.fromtheclay.com/2007/01/18/create-you-next-church-website-with-an-apple#comment-200 I must agree that Macs are the best computers for ministry (or anything else for that matter). iWeb is a great tool for the novice web designer and it does create a great site. I must, however, ask this question: with so much commentary about the benefits of a Mac on this blog, why is there not a Mac version of N-spire? I know the FAQs suggest using Virual PC, but that doesn't work for Intel-based Macs. I have to use Remote Desktop Connection and access N-spire on our Windows server. When my staff members need a new computer I want them to get Macs, but they cannot without losing access to N-spire. Is there any possibility of a Mac version?Pretty please...? I must agree that Macs are the best computers for ministry (or anything else for that matter). iWeb is a great tool for the novice web designer and it does create a great site. I must, however, ask this question: with so much commentary about the benefits of a Mac on this blog, why is there not a Mac version of N-spire? I know the FAQs suggest using Virual PC, but that doesn’t work for Intel-based Macs. I have to use Remote Desktop Connection and access N-spire on our Windows server. When my staff members need a new computer I want them to get Macs, but they cannot without losing access to N-spire. Is there any possibility of a Mac version?Pretty please…?

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