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Choosing Parallels Over BootCamp for OS X

juusan writes "Sysadmin Jeremy Randall outlines his installation and impressions of Parallels for Mac OS X. Is it better than BootCamp? Does it run succesfully on a Mac Mini? Does it pass the scrutiny of a fairly picky system administrator? Yes indeed, on all counts."

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  1. Back in Time by nighty5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The application looks like something from Windows 3.11

  2. Re:I'll save you time by macaulay805 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I vote for you to be a Slashdot mod and put your summaries in every story. Save the world some time (and 40 "next" page link clicks).

  3. Saving lives? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    5 minutes in savings
    12 of those in an hour
    288 in a day
    about 300,000 in 3 years
    about 3 million in 30 years

    You have to save in the neighborhood of 5-10 million people five minutes each to save one lifetime's worth of time.

    you < Superman

  4. Re:I'll save you time by nEoN+nOoDlE · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damnit, I just squandered those 5 minutes you saved me reading the comments in the thread.

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  5. Re:Doesn't "do" graphics by sootman · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's XP's 'idle' process. Dvorak can tell you all about it.

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  6. Re:Doesn't "do" graphics by bazorg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe its not parallels fault that XP is doing stuff when its supposed to be idle?
    virtualized pwnage!!!

  7. Taking lives? by Kadin2048 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So if you waste 5 minutes each from 5 or 10 million people, can we just say you're guilty of murder and execute you?

    Because if so, there are a whole lot of people on American Idol that I want to make sure are first up against the wall. Then we'll start on spammers and the guy who wrote the Llama Song.

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