Runnning Windows on Mac news

[Michael O'Neill]

I just watched someone here at the office run Parallels and switch between
OS X and Windows.  It looked pretty slick, especially with the copy and
paste support between the two Operating Systems.

He said setup was pretty painless and unbelievably fast.  He was running
Win2003 and OS X on a Powerbook Pro (dual core).  

I only witnessed, and didn't have time to work with, anything myself...but
it seemed to be very fast in both operating systems.  Of course, I wouldn't
want to run Photoshop in Windows and Final Cut in OS X at the same time...
;P

Pretty slick and impressive nonetheless.

-Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: quills at airmail.net [mailto:quills at airmail.net] 
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:32 PM
To: Pat Christenson; framers List
Subject: Re: Runnning Windows on Mac news

At 3:58 PM -0700 4/13/06, Pat Christenson wrote:
>The NY Times had an article today about Parallels Workstation, a 
>beta software that allows you to run OS X and Windows (any version, 
>not just XP) simultaneously on an intel-powered Mac. You don't have 
>to reboot when you switch. You can copy/paste between systems. You 
>have to "network" them to share files. The free download is 
>available at http://www.parallels.com/.
>
>This sounds like the most acceptable solution for the "I don't wanna 
>buy a PC just to run FrameMaker" folks (of which I am one, although 
>I already have both a Mac and a PC).
>
>Pat Christenson


Boot Camp enables you to run Windows XP natively. The beta copy 
already has the native drivers. There is no speed degradation. It is 
not emulation.

Parallels seems to be virtulization, but not emulation. It is a true 
beta and does not yet have all the drivers needed.

The caveat is that you need an Intel Mac to run these programs.

Scott Turner
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