Interesting comment Martin - I've always been a user of VMWare both on Widows and OSX - and used it professionally for a couple of years running training sessions. Whereas I think VMWare and indeed Sun Virtualbox does have a slight edge when it comes to performance, Parallels seems to be much more of a friendly application for the home user. In my opinion it integrates the virtual machine much more fully with the host machine (if this is what you want to do). I am currently running Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro in Parallels and the ease of installation of the Parallels Tools, as well as desktop and file/folder integration has really impressed me - and even perhaps been the little push I needed to start to use Linux more every day.
Tom On 1 Mar 2010, at 15:21, Martin Nix wrote: > I run a Hackintosh with a 3.1Ghz Core2duo and 2.8GHz MacBook Pro - both with > Fusion 3 (instead of Parallels) - I find it has a better edge in terms of > performance > > Martin > > On 1 March 2010 14:14, Brian Smith <br...@briansmithonline.com> wrote: > Thanks, Tom, I missed the question. > > Yes, it's a standard 27-inch iMac bought retail. I tend to use XP most and as > far as I can see, it's almost identical (if not a tad faster) than it was on > my Pentium 4 hyperthreading 3.1GHz PC with 4Gb of RAM, despite the fact that > it's running virtually inside the Mac which also runs very crisply with just > one virtual machine running. I can even drag and drop files from one OS to > the other and do so when it's quicker to do something on the PC because I > know how to do it, than learn how on the Mac. (Note to self: I mustn't let > that prevent me from learning how to do it on the Mac). The drag-and-drop etc > is courtesy of Parallels Tools. Parallels seems to be just brilliant. > > Brian > > > > > On 1 Mar 2010, at 13:20, Tom Smith wrote: > > > To answer on Brian's behalf - he has a 3.06Ghz Core2Duo iMac with 4GB of > > RAM. > > > > I have largely the same setup albeit a little bit older, and have to say > > that with the latests version of Ubuntu and Parallels - runs very well > > indeed! > > > > Tom > > > > On 1 Mar 2010, at 13:18, Phil Thompson wrote: > > > >> On 23/02/2010 Brian Smith wrote: > >>> PS I've got Windows XP, Windows 7 AND Ubuntu 9.10 as virtual amchines > >>> on my brilliant new iMac 27". Amazing. Slows it down a bit if I run > >>> all three but it's amazing how they just ARE independent computers > >>> yet inside the mac (see pic). > >> > >> what processor / RAM does the iMac have ? > >> > >> > >> Phil > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Peterboro mailing list > >> Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > >> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Peterboro mailing list > > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
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