Hi Richard, Some great points you raise. I'm not at all against using Parallels/VMWare, but I think it's desirable to have a single Windows partition accessible via BootCamp. These days, it probably makes sense for the BootCamp partition to be Vista.
Here's what I consider to be required reading: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.24/24.02/VirtualizationBenchmark/ or http://tinyurl.com/yvfy9k As you can see, virtual machines actually outperform native Windows XP in some circumstances! As for why I need to boot into "true-blue" Windows, there are some programs that don't work right when run under virtualization. One of them is a utility I use to use my cell phone as a modem. It's not available for Mac, and the virtual machines assume you're going to use the Mac's networking hardware, not the virtual machine's. Having the BootCamp partition on my Mac has saved my hide more than a couple times just by virtue of being able to get online when other net connectivity was not available. (And EVDO proved to be pretty snappy.) As the article above shows, the virtual software runs Vista like molasses. So speed is a reason to put Vista on BootCamp. Another reason is games. The VMs do a poor job currently of emulating DirectX. I don't see it as much of a sacrifice to maintain 10GB or 15GB of space for BootCamp. It's dual-purposed for the VM software, and it's there when I need it. For everything else (Linux), I would use a virtual machine. Bill _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
