I'd agree with Tom. I don't have the experience of other VMs - although I did try one (Sun Virtualbox, I think it was) on a PC. And I also had a virtual machine set up on my PC when I was doing some work for Becta. It allowed me to access some submitted software directly from home. But neither were easy to use or very friendly for a basic, semi-techncally minded home user like myself. But I've found Parallels on the Mac just does it - brilliantly.
Brian On 1 Mar 2010, at 15:25, Tom Smith wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
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