Now that Apple is the "biggest" tech company in the world, I'm looking forward to the day I don't need these products. The only thing I need a Windows installation for is to test websites in Internet Explorer.
Problem is, you can't install IE7 and IE8 on the same machine, so I have to keep TWO Parallels installations, which use 10GB each, take around 15 minutes to launch and suspend, and are unusably slow if both are running together. So if I tweak a website and want to give it a quick look in the two browsers, it's at least a half hour process. If one looks okay, then I see a problem in another, then I want to go back and re-check the first one, I can easily go crazy.
At least my clients don't make me support IE6 anymore. And I rarely need to customize CSS for IE8.
some of my clients are still running ie6! your going to love me for this! google ietester and try it. it changed by life! and then donate to them!
I'm a little confused: I bought both Parallels 5.0 and Windows 7 (separately) in December and have been running both since then
The Parallels Upgrade to Windows 7 is a PC Application to help users wanting to upgrade from XP or Vista to Windows 7 without having to do a custom install (format). It's not made for Mac OS, as you point out you can run Windows 7 under any version of Parallels since v4.
Oh if only our MFR was supported on a Mac! What bliss that would be. We can't even use Firefox on the PC, it has to be IE, no exceptions.
This area is seeing healthy signs of recovery TG, we were probably very early into the debacle and as always hoped, one of the early ones crawling out. The sales board at Michael Saunders & Co is very active this year. Personally though we are still hurting badly unfortunately.
Totally agree on the causes! The level of greed here in 05 was staggering as everyone and their dog became a real estate 'investor' buying multiple homes to flip. Of course, absent the ludicrous appraisals and banks lending to anything that could breath these idiots would have never been able to do this. I lost count of asking people if they had every played musical chairs.
Hmm... I have Fusion 2.0 right now, and I rarely actually use it. Generally the only thing I do under Windoze is gaming and Fusion has been completely inadequate for that up to this point. My XP install on my Mac Pro is running like a dog these days, so I'm actually thinking of buying 7 and the new Fusion to see if I can play some Windoze games from within Mac OS X.
I'm holding out hope that less demanding games like Civ 4 or Anarchy Online may be playable. Maybe even something a bit more demanding like Oblivion or Fallout 3, but I'm assuming that seriously stressing games like Dragon Age definitely won't run. I guess my biggest hope is that Star Wars: The Old Republic makes it to the Mac as a native app, same goes for Civ 5, and the Fallout 3 sequel.
Two of the leading solutions for running Microsoft's Windows operating system within Mac OS X received new feature improvements over the past week, including Parallel's Upgrade to Windows 7 to VMWare's Fusion 3.1.
Great article. However, it is worth noting that Parallel's Desktop Upgrade to Windows 7 is not an upgrade to nor improvement of Parallel's Desktop 5 (the VM for Mac comparable to VMWare's Fusion 3.1) but rather an entirely separate product meant for use on a PC to help those upgrading to Windows 7 from XP or Vista. Thus the two products are not truly comparable.
At the moment I only use it for Quicken, I have an older version of Quicken which doesn't run under Vista so I have it running under XP Pro in VirtualBox. They don't support the fancy Quicken bank features here so no need to waste money upgrading to something else.
There were a few other tools I used to have it for as well, but I have either got Mac versions now, stopped using them. It is a little processor hungry, I have the 2.16GHz C2D iMac with 3GB RAM, and it will use around half the processor.
I have run some simple games under it as well (didn't try any large ones), but I purchased a Dell Optiplex from the refurb store so didn't need to anymore.
Comments
Now that Apple is the "biggest" tech company in the world, I'm looking forward to the day I don't need these products. The only thing I need a Windows installation for is to test websites in Internet Explorer.
Problem is, you can't install IE7 and IE8 on the same machine, so I have to keep TWO Parallels installations, which use 10GB each, take around 15 minutes to launch and suspend, and are unusably slow if both are running together. So if I tweak a website and want to give it a quick look in the two browsers, it's at least a half hour process. If one looks okay, then I see a problem in another, then I want to go back and re-check the first one, I can easily go crazy.
At least my clients don't make me support IE6 anymore. And I rarely need to customize CSS for IE8.
some of my clients are still running ie6! your going to love me for this! google ietester and try it. it changed by life! and then donate to them!
I changed from Parallels to VirtualBox, for me VirtualBox does everything I need, and at a much better price.
Could you elaborate on, "does everything I need"?
I'm a little confused: I bought both Parallels 5.0 and Windows 7 (separately) in December and have been running both since then
The Parallels Upgrade to Windows 7 is a PC Application to help users wanting to upgrade from XP or Vista to Windows 7 without having to do a custom install (format). It's not made for Mac OS, as you point out you can run Windows 7 under any version of Parallels since v4.
Oh if only our MFR was supported on a Mac! What bliss that would be. We can't even use Firefox on the PC, it has to be IE, no exceptions.
This area is seeing healthy signs of recovery TG, we were probably very early into the debacle and as always hoped, one of the early ones crawling out. The sales board at Michael Saunders & Co is very active this year. Personally though we are still hurting badly unfortunately.
Totally agree on the causes! The level of greed here in 05 was staggering as everyone and their dog became a real estate 'investor' buying multiple homes to flip. Of course, absent the ludicrous appraisals and banks lending to anything that could breath these idiots would have never been able to do this. I lost count of asking people if they had every played musical chairs.
Good luck in AZ
Thanks and you too! Best!
I'm holding out hope that less demanding games like Civ 4 or Anarchy Online may be playable. Maybe even something a bit more demanding like Oblivion or Fallout 3, but I'm assuming that seriously stressing games like Dragon Age definitely won't run. I guess my biggest hope is that Star Wars: The Old Republic makes it to the Mac as a native app, same goes for Civ 5, and the Fallout 3 sequel.
You might find this interesting.
http://www.businessinsider.com/europe-debt-chart-2010-5
Freddie and Fannie are Government Sponsored Entities
Also
http://www.time.com/time/specials/pa...877322,00.html
Extremely fascinating! Thanks!
Two of the leading solutions for running Microsoft's Windows operating system within Mac OS X received new feature improvements over the past week, including Parallel's Upgrade to Windows 7 to VMWare's Fusion 3.1.
Great article. However, it is worth noting that Parallel's Desktop Upgrade to Windows 7 is not an upgrade to nor improvement of Parallel's Desktop 5 (the VM for Mac comparable to VMWare's Fusion 3.1) but rather an entirely separate product meant for use on a PC to help those upgrading to Windows 7 from XP or Vista. Thus the two products are not truly comparable.
Just a thought...
some of my clients are still running ie6! your going to love me for this! google ietester and try it. it changed by life! and then donate to them!
So it still requires Windows, but lets me test multiple IE7 and IE8 within a single Windows installation? Thanks, I will check that out!
Could you elaborate on, "does everything I need"?
At the moment I only use it for Quicken, I have an older version of Quicken which doesn't run under Vista so I have it running under XP Pro in VirtualBox. They don't support the fancy Quicken bank features here so no need to waste money upgrading to something else.
There were a few other tools I used to have it for as well, but I have either got Mac versions now, stopped using them. It is a little processor hungry, I have the 2.16GHz C2D iMac with 3GB RAM, and it will use around half the processor.
I have run some simple games under it as well (didn't try any large ones), but I purchased a Dell Optiplex from the refurb store so didn't need to anymore.