Registered: 05/22/03
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http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/<br><br>I was holding back on the Boot Camp, but hearing this announcement made me go out and buy a copy of WinXP. Actually, I have a friend who works at MS and his friends & family price is $35. WinXP Pro SP2 full version. Yeah.<br><br>Well I'll let you know how it goes. I'd rather do this (more like the VirtualPC approach) than the dual-boot thing. I don't like Win XP running loose on my hardware without some OS X supervision. :)<br><br>--<br>http://www.jackthevain.com/
I see a lot of marketing hype on that page, with little "real-world" reviews. It's still an emulator, which means it's going to run slower. I would rather just use Boot Camp to dual boot.<br><br>
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Registered: 05/22/03
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I'm curious to see how it runs. There's this video some guy posted of Parallels running, and it seems pretty fast. They say the native codeset makes it a much faster emulation than Virtual PC was, which had to translate the chipset code.<br><br>--<br>http://www.jackthevain.com/
Personally, with boot camp now, who cares about all the emulation crap? I mean, people act like restarting your machine is the same thing as scaling Mount Everest. <br><br>
actualy emulation is damn fast on my MacBookPro. I only used it lightly but windows was snappy in a window on OSX.<br><br>I wouldnt use it for games, for that a boot is really really fast.<br><br>
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That's because it's not emulation, it's virtualization. So the "guest OS" should run at near native speed since the virtual machine is sending the same commands to the Intel chip as it usually gets.<br><br>-- Charlie Alpha Roger Yankee Whiskey
Registered: 05/22/03
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For people who need to run OS X programs alongside the Windows ones, virtualization is the choice. Running MS Projects on Windows while everything else on OS X, or something like that. When performance isn't a major issue, especially where native virtualization seems to deliver good performance, this is obviously the choice.<br><br>--<br>http://www.jackthevain.com/
for now<br><br>heh...yeah, famous last words. <br><br>Even though I need Windows for work-related stuff, I think I'll stick with VPC when i need it.<br><br>
I guess because I haven't used Parallels yet. <br><br>And the fact that I don't have a copy of Windows....my work paid for my copy of VPC.<br><br>Oh...and I don't have an intel mac. I guess that's important. <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by OSXaddict on 04/09/06 08:17 AM (server time).</EM></FONT></P>
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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by OSXaddict on 04/09/06 08:17 AM (server time).</EM></FONT></P>
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