Fast OS switching on new MacBook!
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If you are in the "Want a Mac, but need to run Windows for some things" market, Parallels Desktop (www.parallels.com) looks very promising. It uses different technologyfrom VirtualPC, and as a result operates much faster. You launch Windows from within OSX, but it doesn't emulate though OSX. So no rebooting (like with BootCamp), and as with the Classic environment, you just have to wait for the second OS to launch. As the video shows, it can also run other Intel-based OSs, for your Linux or what have you.
Web gossip suggests it's stable and fast (near full speed), and at $40 plus a legal Windows disk, it will be well worth watching when it finally launches (very soon). Unless of course Leopard does it all for free.
Web gossip suggests it's stable and fast (near full speed), and at $40 plus a legal Windows disk, it will be well worth watching when it finally launches (very soon). Unless of course Leopard does it all for free.
It does look very impressive, but I reckon I could do a similarly impressive job of switching around between Linux and Windows by using VMWare.
The killer bit is of course that it's a mac doing it, so MS would be playing catch up until they support the same thing. I wonder how long till VMWare can run mac?
I'd love a nice macbook but until they bring out mac versions of games, I'd be doing myself out of one of the main reasons I've got a decent PC in the first place.
The killer bit is of course that it's a mac doing it, so MS would be playing catch up until they support the same thing. I wonder how long till VMWare can run mac?
I'd love a nice macbook but until they bring out mac versions of games, I'd be doing myself out of one of the main reasons I've got a decent PC in the first place.
Looks neat... I've been playing with VM Ware but not really impressed so far.
Natively I'm running Win2K, I loaded in the free version of VM Ware and installed a copy of Madriva One. This runs like a dog, extremely slow and it seems the KDE process is hogging heaps of CPU.
My system is a 3GHz P4 with 1.5Gb RAM. I guess possibly the fact that I am running two graphics cards or the fact I only have bog standard IDE drives may be the reason I'm having so little luck?
What's the verdict with VMWare, is it better to run it under Linux and then VM Windows, or should running it under Windows and VMing Linux be about the same in performancce terms?
cheers
Ex
Natively I'm running Win2K, I loaded in the free version of VM Ware and installed a copy of Madriva One. This runs like a dog, extremely slow and it seems the KDE process is hogging heaps of CPU.
My system is a 3GHz P4 with 1.5Gb RAM. I guess possibly the fact that I am running two graphics cards or the fact I only have bog standard IDE drives may be the reason I'm having so little luck?
What's the verdict with VMWare, is it better to run it under Linux and then VM Windows, or should running it under Windows and VMing Linux be about the same in performancce terms?
cheers
Ex
HiRich said:
If you are in the "Want a Mac, but need to run Windows for some things" market, Parallels Desktop (www.parallels.com) looks very promising. It uses different technologyfrom VirtualPC, and as a result operates much faster. You launch Windows from within OSX, but it doesn't emulate though OSX. So no rebooting (like with BootCamp), and as with the Classic environment, you just have to wait for the second OS to launch. As the video shows, it can also run other Intel-based OSs, for your Linux or what have you.
Web gossip suggests it's stable and fast (near full speed), and at $40 plus a legal Windows disk, it will be well worth watching when it finally launches (very soon). Unless of course Leopard does it all for free.
Installed Parallels last night (on the Intel Mini).
It runs a lot better than VPC but it doesn't compare to running XP natively through Bootcamp - but then you don't get the fast switching with Bootcamp.
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