Parallels Desktop

[Neal Campbell K3NC]

I think in terms of speed you are correct but I have been using  
Parallels for about 4 months now> I have problems with Parallels  
running  programs like Rhapsody so I am pretty sure there are some  
compromises "under the hood". For my money, boot camp is the "real  
thing" while Parallels is a really quick and neat windows environment  
that is not 100% compatible (at least yet).

Neal Campbell K3NC
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On Feb 20, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> A brief note about "virtualization" a la Parallels:
>
> This ain't your father's virtualization.  If you've ever used  
> Virtual PC, it's similar only in convenience.  But in performance  
> it's in a whole other universe, effectively redefining what  
> virtualization means.
>
> In the olden days, virtualization had to take place at the lowest  
> levels, translating every machine instruction one by one, millions  
> of times per second, from the Intel instruction set Windows is  
> written for to the PPC set it was running on under Virtual PC.
>
> But on Intel Macs, there's really very little being translated at  
> all. Machine instructions simply get passed right through to the  
> Intel processor, and only a small handful of operations regarding  
> peripheral devices (CD, Internet, etc.) require any remapping at all.
>
> So in terms of compatibility testing I doubt there's much  
> difference between Parallels and Boot Camp.  But in terms of  
> convenience they couldn't be father apart:
>
> The one thing Parallels does that's similar to Virtual PC is allow  
> folders to be shared between the native Mac OS and the Windows OS  
> running inside of it.  This means you can easily assign a  
> development folder to be shared with Parallels, and work on it in  
> either OS simultaneously.  You can make your builds on either OS  
> and run them in the other -- no reboot necessary.  You can move  
> from one OS to another effortlessly, without stopping anything  
> you're doing in either.
>
> Sharing folders and running the OSes simultaneously means an order- 
> of-magnitude productivity boost over the quit-reboot-start-over  
> routine required with Boot Camp.
>
> Parallels is so superior in terms of workflow I'll gladly put  
> myself out on this limb, just as I did years ago when I first  
> suggested Apple would one day switch to Intel:  I predict that not  
> too long from now Apple will acquire Parallels, and ditch Boot Camp  
> altogether.  Stranger things have happened....
>
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
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