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Agree totally that the Intel Mac is far and away the best solution, but if you can't yet afford that, you're down to choosing between Guest PC and Virtual PC.
I currently run Virtual PC for a specific application and basically hate it - it's slower than a dog and still won't run some windows apps (such as Blue Water Sailing's reader for it's digital edition).
One observation on Guest PC - it doesn't include Windows, which Virtual PC does, so be sure to consider that in any cost comparison.
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The Parallels virtual machine on an Intel Mac is fast and easy. I was running Raymarine Navigator and C-Map Planner at the same time with MacENC in the backgound yesterday. No problems.
Did discover something though. The Navionics tide data on Raymarine has a serious bug. It sometimes shows you the tides for a different location when you click on the tide symbol. I noticed it because I was comparing the C-Map and Navionics renderings for the Philippines and the tide graphs weren't the same for the same port. Not sure why, but it looks like the software relies on some internal tables for North America to draw the graphs, so it gives you the "nearest" port which may be a zillion miles away. If you just access the text data by mousing over the tide symbol it seems to be correct, but there is no warning when you go for a graph except that the sunrise/sunset values are crazy.
