Re: [Fed-Talk] Parallels VM Emulator
Re: [Fed-Talk] Parallels VM Emulator
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Parallels VM Emulator
- From: Michael Pike <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 15:20:28 -0600
Hi Bob:
Well... it depends on your needs. Parallels is in beta, and the only
problems I have run into our:
1) right now sound doesnt work in the VM
2) Full screen mode doesn't work
3) It randomly does something to "crap the bed" and causes the entire
Mac to reboot.
I also installed BootCamp... Parallels VM is still twice as fast as
even raw XP running on the CoreDUO... don't ask me how.
I am a developer, so the VM is best for me because I like to roll
back to different OS states... If you are truly looking to be a
windows user, BootCamp will work, but keep in mind it is truly a
totally separate OS... there is no connecting the two (well until a
virus does it somehow).
Between us (and the group), I don't like what I am seeing with the
Mac community and the "opportunity" to run Windows... they are a
little too excited about it. I always like new things, which is why
OS X is so cool to me, they get a new version almost yearly... maybe
using WinXP is a new experience for Mac users, so they are excited.
Hopefully the excitement will wear off. If it doesn't OS X will not
be around much longer (in my opinion). Especially for developers. I
have my own application (and it's pretty huge, it's an EMR called
Life Record http://www.liferecord.com), and I develop a Mac and
Windows version. It is such a pain in the rear to do two versions.
Both have separate issues. The language and tools I use are pretty
standard and it's somewhat difficult, I cannot imagine what someone
like Adobe goes through to write two versions of their complex apps.
If Mac users all start using Windows, and Leopard either a) comes
with a VPC type build of Windows, or b) MS offers an XP for use with
Leopard, you will see Mac apps (at least pro apps like Adobe and
others) start to diminish support for the Mac all together,
especially if the Mac community embraces Windows as readily as they
seem to be doing. Apple is very secretive, but I can almost
guarantee you one thing, Leopard WILL have VM technology (virtual
machine)... I know this because Apple (at least for now) has yet to
let Microsoft be "one up" on them... and if you don't know, MS bought
VirtualPC to include the technology with their server OS's... I do
not think Apple is going to allow Windows to have native VM
technology, and leave it out of Leopard. Hell for all I know,
Leopard will be an OS for "Mac and PC". Which I think would be great
in some ways, and not in others.
I've not found ONE SINGLE ITEM that OS X cannot do that Windows
can... if not natively from Apple, with some great open source app.
I'll continue to support Apple forever, I just hope Apple does the
same to their OS X users. It won't be long (if not already), that
the iPod revenue will surpass the Mac revenue. When that happens, I
think you will see less and less Apple Macintosh products. Think
about it (from the money standpoint, not the "change the world have
the best" standpoint)... Macintosh and OS X are NOT CHEAP to
maintain. Programmers are expensive, and OS level programmers and
their level of expertise are very expensive. The iPod probably has
about 20 developers versus 200 OS X developers... when does it become
"more practical from a profit standpoint" to dump the product that
costs the most and takes the most resources, but does not make the
most money?
Or, this could be a flipsided thing.... now that Mac runs Windows,
maybe people that were buying Dell or Gateway will now start buying
Apple... and they will sway towards OS X. This could happen, but I
do not think it's likely. What I've found with the "typical"
computer user is this, they don't want to learn anything new... they
want to do what they need to do and do it in the laziest fashioned.
I've converted... ohh.... probably about 300 people to Mac (between
work and personal)... with my wife being one of them. She was a
diehard Windows user... yeah the Mac was "cool" but, in her words,
"it's different, and I don't really want to learn a whole new
computer". When her last virus hit, I refused to help... she
basically was forced to use a Mac, and after about 2 weeks, she won't
touch Windows... this is the case with everyone. I will help a
Windows user as long as they don't have a choice. When that user
buys a new computer, they either by Mac (and get help from me), or
buy a Windows machine, and I refuse to help them. Free tech support
is a huge thing... it may not seem like it, but I've had several
people (and friendships in fact) diminish their relationship with me
because after all the crap Windows caused them, they still went and
bought a Gateway instead of a Mac. They of course get infected
again, ask for help, I tell them to "screw off", and that's that. It
usually only takes 2-3 trips to Best Buy and the so called "Geek
Squad" to charge them $150 a pop to clean a virus before they go and
buy the Mac to get back on my good side.
Back on topic:
For what it's worth, I have the "top of the line" intel iMac you can
get.... OS X still boots about 5 times faster, and starts up and is
"ready to go" about 15 times faster than XP running natively on the
iMac. If you compare XP on the iMac to a high end Dell, the iMac
still beats the hell out of it by about 5-6 times the speed.
mike
On Apr 6, 2006, at 10:24 PM, Bob King wrote:
And you have all the functionality? The Apple note on BootCamp
said some features wouldn't work. Parallels sounds like the real
deal if it truly is that fast. I just didn't want to get saddled
with the Virtual PC dog.
On Apr 6, 2006, at 9:14 PM, Michael Pike wrote:
I needed to get toiler paper...
http://www.parallels.com
I have an iMac CoreDUO 20 inch.. 512 megs of RAM.. XP installed
from a fresh CD in under 10 minutes... now that XP is installed in
the virtual machine, it boots up in less than10 seconds (XP).
I have NEVER seen XP run so fast in my life... this smokes a Dell
stand alone system by 5 times atleast.
It's a free beta... check it out. I do not know how they did
it... either that or OS X and the CoreDuo are seriously fast.
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