
I find "Crossover" lets me run most Windows apps in Linux if necessary. The system I use for programming isn't quite up to your standard, a 3.4GHz i7 with 6Gb of 1333MHz RAM and SSD for storage but it plods along quite nicely! Some are dual boot to XP for 'legacy' applications, I use Windows so little it isn't worth my while 'upgrading'.

I have a room full of computers, dedicated to various tasks but all normally run Linux.

Note 10K resistor needs to be added between pins 9 & 10 K128 and K182 are flash programmers and support only those PICs with an 'F' in the partnumber:

Here is a list of the PICs the software & firmware of diypack25 supports for K149 and K150.
