LabView for the mac?

[Danny Diaz]

Originally Posted by MWagon

Those of you with the newer Intel-based Mac's can consider running the Windows version of LabVIEW under Bootcamp (comes with the Mac) or by purchasing a copy of Parallels Desktop ($69 - $89). See www.parallels.com or other Virtualization software. Here's a link from NI's website documenting operation of Labview and the cRio under Parallels and VMWare Fusion www.vmware.com/mac

We use VMWare like this in-house, and I've seen Parallels Desktop work (it's incredibly slick).

-Danny

[MWagon]

While I'm sure the Mac users out there already know this, I should have mentioned that Apple's Boot Camp requires you to re-boot into Windoze from OSX and back. One of the best reasons for using one of the 3rd party Virtualizers like Parallels & Fusion which are apps that run in their own window on the OSX desktop.

As Danny said, either one offers a super-smooth & robust WinPC if needed.

[Arkorobotics]

Originally Posted by MWagon

While I'm sure the Mac users out there already know this, I should have mentioned that Apple's Boot Camp requires you to re-boot into Windoze from OSX and back. One of the best reasons for using one of the 3rd party Virtualizers like Parallels & Fusion which are apps that run in their own window on the OSX desktop.

As Danny said, either one offers a super-smooth & robust WinPC if needed.

Well the compactRIO is going to change everything, if I am not mistaken, LabVIEW can program/collect data from the cRIO. If you install LabVIEW on any machine running Mac OS X then your set. Right?

[Danny Diaz]

Originally Posted by Arkorobotics

Well the compactRIO is going to change everything, if I am not mistaken, LabVIEW can program/collect data from the cRIO. If you install LabVIEW on any machine running Mac OS X then your set. Right?

No, it's not that straightforward for communicating with real-time controllers. There's a whole deployment framework designed to communicate with, transfer files to, configure, and manipulate real-time controllers. And, unfortunately, we did not port the new deployment framework to the Mac when we overhauled the framework several releases back - there were business reasons for us not doing so. The same business reasons that make it so that LabVIEW does not support the Mac any more unless you have an Intel Mac (as of LabVIEW 8.5).

-Danny