"James J. Capone" wrote:
>
> Is it worth it. Does it work. I want to know before I D/L it and install it
> on my system. If you have any experience with it Please Let me know. Thanks
I played with it for a few days right after the first beta was
announced. It seemed to work very well overall. I was able to do most
everything I normally do under Windows (I didn't try any DirectX or 3D
stuff with it, however).
As for being worth it, the beta's free, so there's no doubt it's worth
the download time. For the final product, I remember seeing that they
were asking something like $300 for it. At that price point, I begin to
wonder if rebooting into Windows is REALLY that much of a hassle on this
home computer. I'll probably skip the retail version until there is
better pricing available.
The one thing that VMware seems to do that really makes it non-optimal
for more than a couple users, is that it (by default) requires you to
install Windows for each and every user. So, if you want to install for
you and your wife, you're looking at a couple gig down the drain.
VMware will, with a little tweaking, use your Windows partition. But,
with Windows being as flakey as it is about detecting
hardware/booting/etc, is it really worth the risk?
All in all, it's an interesting product, and if it takes off, it will
confirm Linus' idea that Windows emulation is useful for Linux.
--
Steve Philp
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