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Why use anything else?This (via the Daring Fireball Linked List) is exactly right on the money. Parallels is great software, enabled by a great choice on Apple's part. I have MacOS X, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Pro, and Ubuntu running on the same machine, and I never reboot it. The speed of each OS feels about the same, which is to say plenty fast enough. I talked about Macintitis being a problem as we developed CodeZoo; now, instead, Macintitis makes platform testing better. I don't think anyone should view Apple's switch to Intel as an Apple-specific transition. In the same way that browsers are abstracting away many of the problems of cross-platform development at the UI level, a common chip for all popular OSes is making inroads on the opposite flank.
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Comments: 2
Kevin Farnham [17 August 2006 10:08 AM]
I went with Parallels for my daughter's MacBook (our family's first experience with a Mac). Thus far, everything's working perfectly. I think about this every time I reboot my own notebook PC to switch between Ubuntu and XP, something I tend to do several times each day...
Aaron Kulbe [17 August 2006 01:40 PM]
How funny. I was just thinking the same thing. I told a friend the other day that Windows is now just another application I run on my Mac. :)
I have 3 VMs so far, on my Macbook. Time to get a bigger hard drive. 60GB isn't enough!!
Ubuntu
Windows XP
Gentoo
It all works great. That makes this Macbook the most versatile development box I've ever had. Testing is a snap.
Macbook++
Parallels++