Has anyone had luck using Little Reader on Macbook?

[LocaHijabi]

Hi All,

Since my son was born (now 21 months) I had gotten almost all of Doman's book.  I believe in his concepts and was really excited to do it.  However, due to time restraints, and the fact that I am also trying to complete my BA I find myself very limited on time.  I came across Little Reader and was VERY excited to use it since it would save me tons of time and effort.  However, looking at the fact that it cannot be used on Mac is a HUGE disappointment.  I read that it would have been ready by now, it was a 2008 old forum discussion.  I am behind in starting my son on the Doman method, so wanted to know if anyone has had any luck running Windows on Mac and downloading LR and using it successfully?  Or am I on my own here =/

Would really appreciate the feedback.

[Kezia]

Hi LocalHijabi,

I've also seen your other post in our very old Mac/Linux users' topic (http://forum.brillkids.com/little-reader/mac-linux-64-bit-windows-users-please-raise-your-hands!/msg59579/?topicseen#msg59579)

Yes, unfortunately we still haven't gotten around to developing a Mac version of Little Reader (and Little Math). We have been devoting our time and resources to improving our software, and we've also been working on updating and localizing the our official curricula into different languages. We apologize, but just to let you know, we are definitely planning to do a Mac version soon!

You might have seen posts here in the forum about our users who worked around this issue by installing Windows on their Macs via BootCamp, Parallels or other similar software, and they have been using our programs on their Macs for quite some time now. However, the customer support we can provide is very limited, as we haven't really tested LR and LM in a real Mac environment yet (but we will definitely help you out as much as we can).

Kindly have a look at these links for more information about Boot Camp and Parallels:

Boot Camp
http://www.apple.com/macosx/compatibility/
http://www.soft32.com/download_200398.html

Parallels
http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/

I believe most of our Mac users here are using BootCamp to run LR/LM. It comes built in with Mac OS X (Snow Leopard), so if you have the same version, maybe you can do the free trial and see how it works for you?

I hope this helps! 

Kezia

[ExtremeBartendingDad]

I was in your shoes exactly. Yes, you can make it work. I did it With a few upgrades and 2 new software programs.

I bought the deluxe program and was really excited. Then i realized not mac friendly. Rats!!!

 i really wanted the programs so I bought windows 7 home 64 bit.

 I'm on a macbook pro i bought sept 2009 - 2.53 GHz Intel core duo processor
Hardware Overview:

  Model Name:   MacBook Pro
  Model Identifier:   MacBookPro5,4
  Processor Name:   Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed:   2.53 GHz
  Number Of Processors:   1
  Total Number Of Cores:   2
  L2 Cache:   3 MB
  Memory:   8 GB
  Bus Speed:   1.07 GHz
  Boot ROM Version:   MBP53.00AC.B03
  SMC Version (system):   1.49f2
  Serial Number (system):   W892341J7XJ
  Hardware UUID:   630964E5-2630-52E9-963F-F313CE38CB1F
  Sudden Motion Sensor:
  State:   Enabled

....  I bought parallels...
 had some problems. froze when i tried to customize. Actual playing the lessons- no problems at all.

then i tried boot camp...just too much work going back & forth because only one OS at a time.

 I decided to upgrade from 250 to 500 GB and from 4 to 8 RAM. Upgraded to newest OS snow leopard, then a new parallels came out and i had just bought 5.0 so i got free upgrade to 6.0.
I'm Beta testing LR V2.0 and i'm loving it.
Here is a post i just made...

Thanks everyone  I'm really enjoying using the new customization system. Some really good things here. Especially how easy it is to add audio files. Fantastic. We're getting the whole family involved.

It's still not as good as what i dream requested in one of my the suggestion posts,( having option to record large amounts of words and having program auto/intelligently sort them, instead of having to do one recording testing and saving at a time )  http://forum.brillkids.com/little-reader/little-reader-suggestions/15/   but very user friendly.
We're gradually building a really fantastic personalized learning program. Wyatt clearly, clearly pays more attention.

Brillkids are constantly working at making programs better and that makes them run easier with either boot camp or parallels.

GO PARALLELS. There are still some hiccups but i've already got 2 or 3 updates from parallels and Both Brillkids and parallels have a really good support system. Even though BK states they can't help much with mac users.

LR 2.0 beta is already truly fantastic and has changed our lives. Check some of my other posts to read about my journey to get here. Totally worth the money for program and the few upgrades etc.
Good luck

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