I have a Mac with OSX, and also have a Asus laptop with Windows Vista

[G+_Peter Heels]

I have a Mac with OSX, and also have a Asus laptop with Windows Vista. On the laptop i have installed Photoshop[PS], although i can't install PS onto the Mac because its a windows version. My question is, after putting my Laptop on my network can I work on the programs that are installed on the laptop using my Mac. In other words can I run PS on my Mac?

[G+_Charles Johnston]

Yes with various remote desktop solutions. I always liked VNC, just remember when you run it, it eats up bandwith

[G+_Michael Kickingbear]

My suggestions are:

 

1.) Any virtualization solution can be used to run a copy of windows on your Mac system:

A.) VNC.

 

B.) parallels

 

C.) VMWare fusion

 

D.) use the boot camp utility that is built into Mac osx, and create a partition on your macs hard drive for a dual boot system for windows or osx

 

Boot camp is better For running Windows on your Mac in terms of utilizing less resources for a smoother running system. That way if you want to run Photoshop on your Mac natively you will have a copy of Windows on that Macintosh system and just run it from there.

 

Now, the advantage to running a virtualization solution such as parallels or VMware is that both Operating system environments can run simultaneously on your Mac but the system may run slower, However you can copy files from One operating system to the other.

 

So if you have Photoshop installed on the Windows partition and your running VMware or parallels, you should be able to copy the produced work from Photoshop over to Mac OS X.

 

 

 

 

[G+_Peter Heels]

Charles Johnston III Thank you for your reply. Could you please explain VNC? 

[G+_Peter Heels]

Thank you Michael, although I was mainly thinking of using the old system of host and slave, and using the Mac to do all my work on it. 

[G+_Michael Kickingbear]

I also have a "log me in account". (See www.logmein.com)

 

With this service, whatever computer you have photoshop installed on, you can log into it from anywhere on virtually any kind of a computer and use photoshop.

 

[G+_Charles Johnston]

http://www.tightvnc.com/

 

Tight VNC, you can install it on both meachines, run it in server mode on your vista, and run the client on the meachines you sit in front of. Makes a window on your screen so you see the other desktop. So in your description the windows Vista shows up as a "Host" and your mac you run VNC to connect to it and remotely access it.

 

Personaly I would look at something like Virtual Box, and set up a Virtual PC with vista and your photoshop (since you seem keen on useing that version) and it will take that laptop out of the loop. But I dont know what your useing the laptop for other than that.

 

You can find out more about VNC at the above link.

[G+_Peter Heels]

Michael Kickingbear Thanks again, I have some homework.

[G+_Peter Heels]

Charles Johnston III Thanks, just downloaded Virtual Box and now i have some homework.

[G+_Charles Johnston]

Virtual Box works great. I run Windows 7 for ham radio programing in it. Plus use it to test out various linux distros.

Just remember, since your creating a virtual PC you will need a seprate licenced copy of Windows, unless you wipe out the laptop to stay legal for your virtual Windows PC. (mine is)

In my house I run all Linux (Xubuntu/Mythbuntu) and on my main box (Xubuntu) i run virtual box, with a licenced copy of windows 7 (got the box next to me)

You have to treat a virtual PC like any other PC, seprate licences (for closed source stuff). Thats the down side to it.

[G+_Miranda Streeter]

I recommend VMware player much over Virtualbox. One is a lot more powerful and, most importantly, faster. Both cool pieces of software, but I haven't seen a reason not to use VMware.