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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4832592" data-attributes="member: 19675">I'm sorry.If the solution for running Character Builder on my Mac is:1) Buying a $400 PC.2) Buying commercial PC emulation software or a card.3) Downloading free PC emulation software and buying a copy of Windows (because my professional ethics would demand nothing less).Those are not trivial costs- the cheapest option works out to at least doubling the cost of the subscription itself.  That's simply not worth it to me.I can afford any- heck, ALL of the above if I wanted belt & suspenders- of those options, but its too much to ask each Mac user for getting full utility out of a subscription to Dragon, especially as compared to the costs implementing platform neutral programming would have been.Again, its a question of shifting a cost easily borne by the publisher (programming in a platform neutral language) which becomes quite expensive at the level of the individual consumer (see above), not that there is an inherent cost difference at all.Now, for some Mac users, this would still be a trivial cost because they run more PC software than I do (I run virtually none).  A Mac user who routinely uses PC emulation in some way would feel no additional impact to his wallet, but those guys are the minority.</blockquote>