Microsoft now make Virtual PC
This program will let you run any PC program on your mac! The important change to version 7 is that the new version will now work on a G5 processor. They also made it a little faster. Emulation is always slower than buying a PC, so if you need a lot of speed, do not bother with Virtual PC, but if you just need to run some essential PC programs then this is for you.
You can buy it with windows built in. You would want this for 2 reasons. You don't have a copy of windows handy, or you wish to save time when you install Virtual PC, installing windows under emulation will take a few hours. The downside is that it costs $100 more.
Without windows it's at $130 right now.
If you have children, you know that your DVD's get destroyed in a hurry. (Peanut butter comes to mind)
All you need a couple of programs to help you to that.
If you don't like how I describe it here is a guide that shows you how to do it!
In the guide you most likely want DVD to DVDr
Note that if you don't have a DVD burner you can use the DVD to SVCD guide to make a Regular CD with the movie on it!
You have to do 3 things to make it all work:
First you must get the information off the dvd Mac The Ripper is a good program for that
here are some sites that describe it for you: 1 2 3
Most DVD's are more than the 4 gigs you can burn on a blank DVD, so you will have to have a program that will do this for you
DVD2ONE is a good program but hard to find
Roxio make a new program called Popcorn that will compress and burn the new DVD
Once you have the VIDEO_TS folder on your hard drive that will fit on a DVD, you can burn it with toast.
Note that you can play a ripped DVD on your hard drive just by double clicking it. Windows users can not do this unless they buy special software to do it!