{"id":890,"date":"2009-09-11T12:03:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T11:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=890"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:25:07","slug":"crossover-for-mac-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/890","title":{"rendered":"Crossover for Mac Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Codeweavers, the makers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeweavers.com\/products\/cxmac\/\">Crossover for Mac<\/a> have the most peculiar pricing\/support structure I have come across. This package allows you to run many Windows programs on a Mac; there is a version for Linux as well. It is especially useful for that odd application that you might have for which there is no suitable Mac replacement. In my case it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wavecor.co.uk\/\">WaveCorrector<\/a> which is by far the best vinyl clean-up tool available&mdash;but for Windows only.<\/p>\n<p>I purchased and installed Crossover back when I first bought the Mac (April 2008) to enable me to run this one program, and it has been fine. I don&#8217;t need any more features from Crossover and have never had to call on their support. So when their support ended after six months it didn&#8217;t bother me too much at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Now Snow Leopard has come out and for about \u00a320 I have received my DVD. I have been checking all the software I need for compatibility and the majority have already upgraded or are in the process of doing so. All but one has at least a beta version available and that includes the freeware. There is no patch for my version of Crossover and, if there was, I could not download it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeweavers.com\/products\/upgrade_policy\/\">because my support has expired<\/a>. They do have a new version which does support Snow Leopard but to get it I have to re-purchase the product to bring my support up to date; That is $40&mdash;more than the MacOS upgrade itself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Codeweavers, the makers of Crossover for Mac have the most peculiar pricing\/support structure I have come across. This package allows you to run many Windows programs on a Mac; there is a version for Linux as well. It is especially useful for that odd application that you might have for which there is no suitable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}