MacWindows

Running Apple Macs and PCs together on a network or exchanging data from standalone machines is never easy. But it may not be as difficult as you imagine.

With full compatibility some way off, if ever, sharing documents across platforms remains a bit of headache. Admittedly, in recent years this has become easier with various exchange software applications making big steps. However, there are always gaps and shortcomings with such things as formatting etc.

Full blown Mac emulators have also been around for some time, but most are expensive and not completely infallible. Free open source software, though, offers an opportunity to experiment with Mac emulator software on the cheap.

One of the best known of the Mac emulators is PearPC, another fruit-related application, to enable your Mac and PCs to talk to one another without having to fork out a small fortune.

PearPC was originally developed to run Apple Mac PowerPC software but has been updated to enable Windows machines to run Mac OS X and Linux software.

Learn more about PearPC at http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/about.html
And download it from http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/downloads.html