HI Im Wondering..

Hi i am new and i have a question. I was resently at my friends house, he has a mac and he introduced me to a cool program Garage Band. But the program is only for Mac. I remember there was such a thing or a program where mac can run windows programs. I was wondering is there a program that does the opposite? Thankyou

The Mac to Windows program you are talking about is Virtual PC. Although I do not believe there is a program that does the opposite. Garage Band is made directly from Apple computers and they do not usually create cross system applications (exceptions are: iTunes, Quicktime - all that I know of). Sorry dude, you'll have to get a mac to run that program.

There is Pear PC that will allow you to emulate Mac OS X on a Win machine. Much like VPC emulates Windows on a Mac.
However, GarageBand is a very intense app, and emulators like VPC and PearPC will not handle highly intensive apps well at all.
So the short answer is, no you cannot run GarageBand without a Mac.

Pear PC - never heard there was such a program, good to know

CrazyMobster said:

Hi i am new and i have a question. I was resently at my friends house, he has a mac and he introduced me to a cool program Garage Band. But the program is only for Mac. I remember there was such a thing or a program where mac can run windows programs. I was wondering is there a program that does the opposite? Thankyou

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Try these:
Acid Pro
Tracktion
Sonar

Thanks

Thanks for the advice ill try those prgrams you suggested.

FruityLoops is a very good program (much like Garage Band) for Music composition. Give it a try. As for running Mac programs on a PC, i couldn't help you there. I've never tried myself.

There is another program that is like VPC but for Windows called CherryOS. I dont know how good it is, but if you are dead set on garage band and dont have a mac you might check it out.

PunkRockTuba said:

There is another program that is like VPC but for Windows called CherryOS. I dont know how good it is, but if you are dead set on garage band and dont have a mac you might check it out.

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I would stay away from CherryOS. For awhile it was pretty much just vaporware, then they released something that allegedly just used PearPC code, now it is gone.

Ya PearPC is kindof complicated so i guess ill stick with Windows Programs, im sure i can find some that are just as good. Thanks everyone for the advice

You can just get a Mac. A Mac Mini for $500...