Running Morfik on a Mac

Since Morfik is a Windows application, I would guess that there are few Mac users out there using it, right now. It is, however, perfectly usable when running from within a Parallels's virtual machine.

I tried this setup, recently, as I have been moving more and more towards becoming a a full time user of OS X and Morfik AppsBuilder is the single irreplaceable Windows application I still use. It worked quite well. I worked out so well that I decided to take the plunge and move definitively to the Mac.

I am using a basic model MacBook, one of the white ones, so anything newer than that should have even better performance. I can compare the performance of running AppsBuilder in this computer, through the virtual machine is comparable to the performance I get while running it on a Turium X2 based computer with 2 GB or RAM.


I have to admit that I did upgrade the MacBook's original 1GB to a full 4GB in order to run the virtual machine. I installed a copy of Windows XP Home in the virtual machine, which seemed like the best option as it requires much less system resources than Vista. Giving it a full gigabyte of RAM to use made things worked fine while running in Parallels' coheerance mode Morfik pretty much just seems to be another Mac application. (even though it has this Office 2007-look)

Now what I need to look into is how to get rid of that Windows Taskbar floating over my dock, while I'm using Morfik.