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Darwin:
I have serious reservations about how zealous Apple will be to drop their pants as Microsoft have done with Vista's DRM.
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rssapphire:
For me, the perfect world would be windows + linux in something like parallels, so that i could take the best of both worlds.
-jgpaiva (August 11, 2007, 09:27 AM)
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That's what I do now. I run "XPLInux": Linux in a VMWare virtual machine running on XP with a X-server also running on XP so I can run programs on the VM but display them on my Windows desktop.  See this thread for more: "XPLinux" Running Windows XP and Kubuntu on one joint desktop

Armando:
@nontroppo :

Does Parallels for Mac really allows Windows apps to each run in their OWN windows (not windows  inside a window of a MS Windows desktop...), a bit like if one was using Wine on a Linux box? (that's what I understood from one of your previous post...)

According to your experience, I understand that cpu power consumption is about 5% higher, but how much more RAM (%) does it take to run both XP and OS X + the Parallels layer, all at the same time (vs running OS X alone)?

thanks

Armando:
OK. I went there and found pretty much answers to my questions... :-[ :

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=88993&tstart=0
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=89161&tstart=120

So, if this can happen for Linux too, I'll be switching sooner than I thought.

Here's a nice video of the VMWare "unity" feature (in VMWare Fusion) -- speaks for itself : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIApJMzGzDQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbabygotmac%2Ecom%2Fa%2Fvmware%2Dunity%2Dvs%2Dparallels%2Dcoherence%2F

VMWare fusion seems like it will surpass parallels in terms of features. Run, parallels, run...

P.S. Edit : and here's a recent review of VMware Fusion

nontroppo:
Parallels is much more feature rich than fusion actually - but it uses more CPU/RAM and has an horrifically bad support record and bug fix record. Go to their forums and weep. Actually i'm using VMWare Fusion at the moment for evaluation purposes, I've yet to choose between them.

RAM usage of the VM is good, you ideally need 2GB and assign around 768MB to windows. I regularly run Adobe Illustrator CS3 twice (win AND in Mac simultaneously!) + Matlab (win) + Word (Win) + Excel (win) + Endnote (mac) + Scrivener (mac) + Salamander (win) + Forklift (mac) + Opera (mac) + ITunes (mac) + colloquy (mac) + Terminal (mac) running a secondary external 24" monitor without any slowdowns whatsoever on my Macbook. If I run Photoshop on top of that then I'll start to get some swapping, but it is not awful.

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