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First time poster here, thanks for taking the time to read this.

I just bought my first Mac two months ago, I am very happy after making the switch to Mac. My problem is that I use Corel Draw for all my art design in school and work. Currently I am running Corel on my Windows based computer in XP. It is a old laptop and is not going to last much longer. I would like to run Corel on my Mac, but Corel does not run on Mac.

So I looked around and found that you can run windows on Mac with either Boot Camp, VMmareFusion, or Parallels Desktop 4.0....I had a friend give me new copies of Parallels 4.0 and Vista, which was nice to save the couple hundred dollars it would have cost me to buy. Then I just found Virtualbox tonight, and thought this might be the way to go. I have used Openoffice for a year now and very happy with it. I would perfer to use a opensource program if it is as good.

I just need to see if anybody thinks that combining Vista, Virtualbox, and Corel is a good Idea. All versions of the software are the newest version. I dont plan on using Vista for anything but Corel. I just don't want to buy a new windows based laptop if I dont have to. But I also don't want to load Vista & Corel on my MacBook if it is going to slow it down or cause me problems on the Mac side of things.

Any ideas, wisdome or advice would be helpful. If you need more info from me I can provide that also. If i have posted in the wrong area, please let me know and I will move it.

My computer is a MacBook Pro 2.4GHz, Intel Core Duo, L2 Cache 3MB, Memory 2 GB, Bus Speed 800 MHz

Thanks in advance for any help.

Alan

Corel Draw? Hmmm. A profesional designer saying goes:It looks awefull like made in a kitchen with CorelDraw.

If you are a student or teacher you can buy the education-version of the Adobe Creative Suite. The education-version may be updated and you can use it also for commercial work. There is also a studentsversion, that is even less expensive, but may not be used for commercial production and will not be able to be updated to the next version and is only available to students and not to teachers.

prices are for example for Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium,
full version 2529€
education 779€
students version 324€
Prices are all from one german reseller and may vary from country to country/ reseller to reseller.

If you want to work like the pro's this is a must and better than CorelDraw, and runs on the mac without virtualiser.

tkwm wrote:Corel Draw? Hmmm. A profesional designer saying goes:It looks awefull like made in a kitchen with CorelDraw.

If you are a student or teacher you can buy the education-version of the Adobe Creative Suite. The education-version may be updated and you can use it also for commercial work. There is also a studentsversion, that is even less expensive, but may not be used for commercial production and will not be able to be updated to the next version and is only available to students and not to teachers.

prices are for example for Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium,
full version 2529€
education 779€
students version 324€
Prices are all from one german reseller and may vary from country to country/ reseller to reseller.

If you want to work like the pro's this is a must and better than CorelDraw, and runs on the mac without virtualiser.

First off I never said I was a professional designer. I own AI and Corel, I just happen to like Corel for the type of work that I do. It fits my needs for the t shirt design work that I do.

I didn't post the question to get your opinion on Corel vs AI, I am well aware of what both can do and can't do.

This is a forum for VirtualBox as you should well know. So why don't you learn how to answer the question that was asked or just keep your one-sided opinion to yourself. You are obviously a PRO at everything, and a complete Adobe apologist. I think AI is a great program, I just want to use Corel...Isnt freedom of choice a great thing.

You come across like a total jacka$$ in your post. Please don't waste my time by posting anymore of your useless information, save it for someone else who wants to waste time talking to you. The 2 minutes it took me to write this reply is more time than I want to ever spend replying to your useless diarrhea that spewed from your brain.

Have a great day.

Thank you for your polite and warm words.
You can also use Gimp, Inkscape and Scribus under Mac to do art design, which are all free. If I had the choice to work under the host OS, I allways would prefer this to the virtualiser.
I'm sure CorelDraw with Vista will work under VirtualBox, like it will work under Parallels or under BootCamp. By the way BootCamp is no virtualiser, you work under Bootcamp like on any other ordinary windows-machine. So if you are in doubt, or anything in CorelDraw won't work under a virtualiser, you should try BootCamp.
Nevertheless, you can download demoversions of the adobe-products, that will run for 4 weeks. You really should try them. If CorelDraw would be as good as the Adobe-products, pro's around the world would use CorelDraw. But they does not.
Oh yes, I had a good day, and tomorow I will have another good day, thank you. Best wishes ...

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I think, as well as digging up a topic thats over a year old (but kudos for searcing) this is a VirtualBox forum, not a Corel Draw forum. I suggest you try and search for a CD forum, unless any of the users here know.