Among Popular Downloads, there's Angry Birds, Facebook and YouTube available to download and install. It lists icons for 'My Apps,' 'Popular Downloads,' 'App Stores' and 'Cloud Connect.'Ĭlicking My Apps opens a window showing icons of the apps installed in BlueStacks. There's a widget set along the top of the Windows desktop that works like the Mac OS X's Dock program launcher. Upon complete installation, BlueStacks places two shortcuts on the Windows desktop: 'Start BlueStacks' and 'Android Apps.' (Android Apps opens a folder containing shortcuts that launch the individual Android apps installed in BlueStacks.) A BlueStacks icon utility is also placed in the Notification Area of Windows. The BlueStacks site doesn't list the graphics chipsets it supports. On the notebook with the Core 2 Duo processor, the installer downloaded a 'limited version' of BlueStacks because it said that the graphics chipset in the computer wasn't powerful enough to render the graphics of some Android apps. I figured that I might as well test BlueStacks on the next version of Windows since it will be an OS also for tablets. I installed it on two notebooks: one with an Intel Pentium Dual-Core 2.2GHz processor with 4GB and running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit the other with an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.5GHz processor with 1GB and running Windows 8 Consumer Preview 32-bit. You download and run an installer program, which, in turn, downloads the actual code for BlueStacks and installs it. (A final release to come will be sold, but pricing has yet to be announced.) The current version of BlueStacks is Beta-1, and for now you can get it for free.

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