...would seem a no-brainer. I was able to play older-generation games like "Halo 2" without a hitch using software emulation. I was unable to transfer my saved games, though, so I hard to start all over. Some old Xbox favorites such...

...within Motorola-powered Macintoshes. But there's always been a price to pay. Hardware solutions are expensive. Software emulation tends to be very slow and can fall short in supporting networks, printers and drives. In the latest solution...

...intend to run demanding programs -- such as PC games that rely heavily on Microsoft's DirectX technology -- software emulation is the cheapest, most practical way to get your Mac to do Windows. To compare the two emulators, I spent two...

...day later, another company unveiled software that runs Windows in Mac OS X at nearly full speed. In both cases, software emulation isn't required because the new Macs share the same hardware brains as Windows PCs. Unlike Microsoft's Virtual...