On Jul 19, at 10:51 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > Parallels and Boot Camp. > > Which, in your opinons, is best? What are the advantages of one > over the > other? How much do they cost?
There are at least three ways to run full-blown Windows on your Mac: Boot Camp is free from Apple. To use it, you must set aside quite a bit of space in a partition on your hard drive, and it only works well with Windows XP SP2. It is not a virtual solution; you must reboot to switch between Windows and Mac OS X. Parallels is a virtual environment and will run pretty much any Intel- based OS you throw at it. I've used it with Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. It works really well. The latest version lets you have Windows and Mac windows running side-by-side on the desktop. VMware is in late beta and is similar to Parallels. I tried it out a few weeks back and for my purposes, it's pretty much the same as Parallels. I think VMware will be the choice among systems people because it's been around for a long time running under Windows and many pros are familiar with it. Right now I'm using Parallels and am pretty happy with it. If you don't give it enough RAM, it will run quite slowly because of the swapping, so make sure your machine is loaded up. (Best Buy has a pretty good price on notebook memory this week.) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2452 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20070719/d0a44569/attachment.bin
