If anyone has read my blog, they would know I run a variety of equipment - Mac's, PC's and Linux. The biggest issue I have is that I hate my Mac's.
Yea, yea, yea, they are the "worlds easiest computer" - if so, how do you figure it's intuitive to drop my CD icon in the trash to eject it? To me, it means it's going to destroy it. Intuitive my ass.
After wasting untold hours arguing the benefits of a given operating system, I've concluded that a persons argument for a particular OS is directly proportional to the time they've spent getting to know and using said system.
I have (2) Mac's at home; a cute little iMac my daughter loves. To me, it looks like ET, and a 20" G5 that I use strictly for home video and family photo's. The 20" is ungodly slow, probably because of the screen real estate it needs to continually update. I've even upgraded the RAM.
Well, now I'm finding that I have too many PC's with too many diverse needs and I need to consolodate some how. This is where "Parallels" comes in.
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Anyways, I have a Linux Box that my two youngest daughters share with me - they love it (see my other posts), my daughters iMac, my wifes Laptop and my Son's WinXP box. I was thinking of dabbling in the art of Internet sales, primarily eBay to start. Then I started thinking of all the headaches I will have with art, photo's, HTML and coding - combined with the accounting, documentation, emailing and the like. I love my PC's for business stuff.
I haven't invested in "Parallels" yet, when I do, I'll give you the rundown. I have however, heard all about it. It gives you the ability to run a virtual Windows session *inside* OS/X. By the way, virtual environments are nothing new.
Word of caution: I have heard that the Windows Vista user license expressly forbids you to operate Vista in a "virtual environment", if you do, you will be in violation of your license. Nuff' about that
So like I was saying, all you need to do is push Vista up into a virtual environment (just kidding).
The neat thing about Parallels is that in addition to running it in a "virtual" space, it is *interactive* with your Mac desktop too. What this means is that if you're running Word for instance, and want to use the document as a basis for a Quark or InDesign project, all you need to do is drag a copy from the Windows window (jinx) to the Mac desktop. Thats it.
Here's the summary of the "feature rundown" if you're interested:
- Run Windows-Only applications on your Mac (I already covered that)
- Play the "Hottest" 3-D games (I'm not a gamer, if you are, it supports both OpenGL and DirectX)
- Use any phone, MP3 player and camera with your Mac (Can't the Mac pretty much do that already? Maybe not, I haven't explored that)
- Run OS/X, Windows and Linux all at the same time (Ahhhhh, *now* we're talking)
- "NO worry's migration" (If this actually works, it would be AWSUM!)
