Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Jul 2006 20:46 UTC
Ars reviews Parallels Desktop for MacOS X, and concludes: "People pondering the switch to a MacBook can rest assured that with the exception of USB device support and hardware accelerated 3-D applications, their needs will be well met by this little workhorse of a program. Between the networking that just works, the impressive speed and the inability of the client operating systems to know they are running within a 'virtual machine', I think you'll be hard-pressed to find software for any x86 OS that doesn't work within a Parallels VM."
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2006-01-08
Why is this question ever asked?
People want to run Windows software on a Mac, or Linux, or anywhere else, because they need some Windows-only piece of software.
Not because they like Windows. Not because they like those one or two Windows-only applications. Because they need those apps, and don't have any choice.
Need. Not want.
Imagine that you can get all of your work done with a Mac, but the company timecard system only supports Windows. Do you want to get paid?
Mac OS may be the best tool for 95% of the job, but there's that last 5%. You could go with Windows alone, in order to get a 100% solution that sucked for 95% of the work. Or you could use the best tool most of the time, and work around Windows lock-in morons with Windows in a VM.