Parallels Desktop

[Ian Wood]

1) Boot Camp sets up a new partition on your HD and you can install  
Windows on that partition, then swap between Mac OS and Windows by  
rebooting. For some hardware testing this is better than  
virtualisation as the OS is dealing with the hardware directly. For  
instance, you get access to the internal Bluetooth, which doesn't  
(last time I looked) work under Parallels.

The beta version of Parallels let's you use this 'existing' copy of  
Windows instead of needing a second install.

2) Windows application windows interleaved with Mac windows, instead  
of it all being kept within the Parallels window/desktop. Personally  
I'm not too keen as it's a horrible mess visually, but I can see the  
attraction for others.

Ian

On 20 Feb 2007, at 13:39, Jim Carwardine wrote:

> Bill, can you give a few more details about the two plusses you  
> listed.
> Having only used Parallels and not Boot Camp I don't understand  
> point 1 and
> having only survival knowledge of Windows, point 2 leaves me  
> wondering as
> well... Jim
>
>
> on 2/19/07 11:32 PM, Bill Marriott wrote:
>
>> 1) Ability to re-use your Boot Camp partition from within Windows  
>> as a
>> "virtual" drive.
>>
>> 2) Coherence -- the ability to run Windows applications without  
>> the Windows