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Old 04-11-2006, 05:19 AM
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thats right, its now posible, and 'allowed' to have a copy of windows xp running on a mac machine...but for the price that mac's cost...its not all in all worth it methinks...

neway, heres the article from hexus:

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WinXP running within Mac OSX
using Parallels' Workstation 2.1 Beta


Things really are starting to hot up on the IntelMac front after the successful bandit competition to find a reliable way to dual-boot between Windows XP and Mac OS X. On Wednesday came Apple's official release of BootCamp Beta - a utility that does the same - along with news that Parallels is also offering a beta utility but one that lets IntelMac users run Windows, Linux and other OSs from WITHIN Apple's OS X operating system.

In Parallels own (rather strangled) words:

Parallels Workstation 2.1 Beta for Mac OS X is NOT simply a "dual-boot" solution; rather, it empowers users the ability to use Windows, Linux and any other operating system at the same time as Mac OS X, enabling users to enjoy the comfort of their Mac OS X desktop while still being able to use critical applications from other OSes.


We downloaded Parallels' solution (17.5MB) and tried it on a CPU that doesn't have built in virtualisation support and were surprised just how good the performance was, both for disk in/out and the CPU itself. We haven't yet run any benchmarks so can't qualify that impression but we'll try to do that soon.

On the downside, Workstation 2.1 Beta for Mac OS X doesn't use Windows' native video driver but, instead, Parallels' own - which, our stand-on-the-fence tester says, "sucks!". Despite that, though, he reckons that "Everything else seems to work".

Our next step will be to try out Parallels' app with a CPU that does support virtualisation and then to run a bunch of benchmarks, after which we'll report back.
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Old 04-11-2006, 09:31 AM
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Ya I heard about that awhile back. Aside from MACys that want to play windows games I dont see the point.
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Old 04-11-2006, 10:22 AM
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Wow that's pretty cool, I guess.
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Old 04-11-2006, 10:40 AM
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I never really saw a point to running windows on a mac. Most people that buy Macs use them for what they are ment to be used for....which is far from what a windows machine is usually used for to begin with.

Why would anyone in their right mind,spend primo dollars on a high end mac to run such a crappy OS as windows on it? (that pretty much sums it up) lol

The ONLY (and I stress ONLY) reason I could probably see why someone would do it,is just to see if it can be done.

That's just my 2 cents.
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Old 04-11-2006, 02:44 PM
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Yeah I don't have a Mac, if I do go Mac/Linux, I never want to see the MS logo again.
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yeh, i can understand that, i just like the familiar...
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Old 04-15-2006, 10:33 PM
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I don't even think it's that big of a breakthrough. People have been using winXP on linux boxes for a long time now through WINE.....and since Mac osX is basicly FreeBSD with a ncie GUI.....there isn't really that much of a difference in my eyes.

Another thing,all it's doing is 'emulating' windows XP....it's not actually (fully) installed on the mac. Which again,is basicly what WINE will do for you on most linux boxes right now.

In a way,osX (64bit) running windows XP (32bit) through emulation....is alot like windowsXP(64bit) running windowsXP (32bit) programs....but it probably does a better job at it. that would be a good study.....test the winXP applications performance on the mac winXP and then on the winXP64.

....makes me wanna try it. Now to find myself a mac.
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Emulation is nothing, Ive seen Windows run on Linux. Im pretty sure you can get any OS working on each other Vise Versa.
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Old 04-15-2006, 11:52 PM
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In the end,I wouldn't want to emulate something like winXP when I had the power of a Mac.
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I've been playing around with OS emulation for some time now. Probably ever since VMware has been around. To be honest it is kinda neat to get an OS to run within another, but the only real reason I use OS emulation is to install new OS's to see if I like them before I actually upgrade or what not. Like when XP came out, I installed it into VMware and tried it out before I made the decision to go with it. This is one reason why I never did the upgrade to windows ME when it came out. I ran it as a virtual machine for a while and saw it was crap so I didn't go with it as my main OS.
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