Running Wattbike Software on a Mac

Although the Wattbike software is only designed to run on Windows PC’s there are some common workarounds available to get Windows software running on a Mac. A couple of the most common are listed below.

Boot Camp

Boot Camp is a free bit of software from Apple which will allow modern Macs (built after 2006) to have both an OS X installation and a Windows installation on the same machine. You will have to restart each time you want to switch between the two which is a bit of a downside but as this is essential a standard installation of Windows it will run faster than the other option on this page which runs Windows on top of OS X, essential running two operating systems at the same time which will use up a lot of system recouses.

The process goes like this, you install Boot Camp (if it isn’t included with your version of OS X) then you install Windows, when you want to run any Windows software you restart your Mac and during startup you will be asked if you want to load Windows or OS X.

For detailed instructions on how to use Boot Camp and how to install Windows please visit this page on the Apple site: http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp

Parallels

Parallels emulates the Windows environment directly from your OS X installation. This will allow you to run Windows programs without the need to restart your Mac, the downsides are that it will run slower than a Boot Camp setup and you will also have to buy both a licence for Parallels (£65.00 at the time of writing) and a copy of Windows, but the ability to quickly run Windows programs make this a popular choice.

For further information or to buy Parallels please visit their website at: http://www.parallels.com/uk/products/desktop/