[videoblogging] Re: New macs will run XP

Virtualization features in certain Intel CPUs are good, but it doesnt change the fact that with virtual machines, the virtual OS is not seeing all the hardware natively, its being passed-through. This has a performance hit, and usually means some hardware will not work at all or not all of its feat

Re: [videoblogging] Re: New macs will run XP

No. Parallels Workstatoin 2.1 uses the Virtualization hardware that is a part of the Core Duo Yonah processor to accomplish hardware speed in the OS X Virtual environ thanks to Intel's new architecture. Users of Parallels' solution report they perceive it to be just as fast as the native bo

[videoblogging] Re: New macs will run XP

Native booting of Windows as opposed to virtual computer approach still has some speed/performance advantages. Yes its true that less emulation is required when Macs with an Intel Intel chip used, but any virtualisation stuff is still going to be slower than booting straight to that OS. If you u

Re: [videoblogging] Re: New Macs will run XP

Speaking of Video Blogs. How bout this one of Half-Life running natively in XP on a 2GHz Intel iMac? Pretty amazing stuff. BTW Only the missing 3-D Support keeps Parallels Workstation 2.1 from being a gaming environ

Re: [videoblogging] Re: New macs will run XP

All the more reason you will be happier with the Parallels solution. Do you have an Intel Mac yet? -- Taylor Barcroft New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist, Podcaster, Futurecaster Santa Cruz CA, Beach of the Silicon Valley URL http://FutureMedia.org RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/Futu

Re: [videoblogging] Re: New macs will run XP

Nope. This Virtualization is seated in Intel's new Virtualization Hardware in the Duo Core Processors. Windows resides in a secure volume that does not co-mingle with OS X. Read all about it: 3 pdfs on the bottom of the download page.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: New macs will run XP

I will add to this...although I've not used them recently (in the last year or so) in the past, I would use vmware to do development and testing on different os's.  I would find flaky little bugs that never showed in a full os. As support and product developer for my employer, we see the odd inc

[videoblogging] Re: New macs will run XP

See here's the reason why this is a big deal to me ...  ... the entire university of missouri system - all four campuses, have standardized on outlook, so, for  example people all over can see my calendar and schedule stuff and see when I'm busy, so like, I get an email asking if I want to accep

Re: [videoblogging] Re: New macs will run XP

I admit that being able to toggle back and forth is nice ... but ... if the VM app works like ones I have used in the windows world ... with this application your windows system would exist as a bunch of files within the MAC OS file system ... if yout MAC OS ever got hosed you'd lose the Window

Re: [videoblogging] Re: New macs will run XP

That's right Bill. What is a WINE-like solution Bill? Run Windows apps without the OS? How can that be? But no you will still need to launch windows in the Parallels Workstation 2.1, but it is super fast as it does use the Intel Virtualization hardware in the Core Duo to run everything right

[videoblogging] Re: New macs will run XP

Number one being that you can switch from one OS to the other without having to reboot. There shouldn't be the performance issues that there used to be with Virtual PC solution that they had on the PowerPC based Macs, since there wouldn't be any processor emulation involved. I expect there to

[videoblogging] Re: New macs will run XP

Now...I wonder when Apple will "allow" us to run OSX on Non-Apple hardware? Not like it hasnt been done and that some of us havent played with it already. Ya ya. Dont even start with the "Apple makes it's money in hardware and not software" argument. David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- I