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Parallels Desktop for OS X Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the virtualization-hot-emulation-not dept.

phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica has put up a great review of the first full release of Parallels' virtualization software for OS X, Parallels Desktop 1.0. From the article: 'Move over emulation, virtualization is in and it's hotter than two Jessica Albas wresting the devil himself in a pit of molten steel. It's no contest, virtualization has it all: multiple operating systems running on the same machine at nearly the full speed of the host's processor with each system seamlessly networking with the next. Add to that the fact that it's cheaper than getting a new machine and you have the guaranteed latest craze. Not even the Hula Hoop can stop this one.'"

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  1. Re:Where are the comments? by ZachPruckowski · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, maybe people are reading the full arti...oh, right, Slashdot. Never mind.

  2. "Hotter than two Jessica Albas wrestling" by Dystopian+Rebel · · Score: 5, Funny

    So Taco, when did Harry Knowles join the editorial staff?

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    1. Re:"Hotter than two Jessica Albas wrestling" by hackstraw · · Score: 5, Funny

      So Taco, when did Harry Knowles join the editorial staff?

      When did slashdot get an editorial staff?

  3. Has it all? by chabotc · · Score: 4, Funny

    "..and it's hotter than two Jessica Albas wresting the devil himself in a pit of molten steel. It's no contest, virtualization has it all.."

    Umm i hate to be the one pointing this out, but i for one can think of some very hot things about Jessica Albas that virtualization doesn't have.

    Really.., can't compare

    1. Re:Has it all? by mcrbids · · Score: 2, Funny


      Umm i hate to be the one pointing this out, but i for one can think of some very hot things about Jessica Albas that virtualization doesn't have.

      You're not much of a geek, are you? Turn in your geek card!

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    2. Re:Has it all? by maximthemagnificent · · Score: 2, Funny

      Uh, I don't think the Jessica Albas would look very hot for long in a pit of molten steel.

      Maxim

    3. Re:Has it all? by Rakshasa+Taisab · · Score: 3, Funny

      She isn't as hot as my macbook pro will be while running School Days under win32 and debugging my BT client in Valgrind on linux.

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  4. Re:Wake me up when ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    wake me up when someone runs windows seamlessly on a stock PC.

  5. tagged as "devilwrestling" by bunions · · Score: 4, Funny

    this is exactly what the tagging system is here for, folks. Two weeks from now when you wonder "what was that thing? About wrestling? I think it was with the devil? Or maybe devils?" slashdot tagging beta will be there to bail you out.

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  6. Re:Different from VMWare? by PCM2 · · Score: 2, Funny
    How is Parallels different from VMWare Workstation?

    It uses a different codebase and it runs on a Mac? Just guessing.

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  7. Virtualization is the ultimate hotness by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry, but by definition nothing can be hotter than virtualization as any powerful enough virtualization system can allow you to have N simultaneous copies of the thing you are claiming is hotter.

    Thus a proper virtualization system would allow you to have two simultaneous Jessica Albas, which I think was being hinted at in the "wrestling the devil" portion of the post. The devil I guess was a methaphor for memory consumption, while the molten steel plainly referred to the processor load and resulting core temperatures.

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    1. Re:Virtualization is the ultimate hotness by wilec · · Score: 2, Funny

      I suspect two simultaneous Jessica Albas would send my core temperature critical resulting in system failure. But what a way to crash....

      Matthew

  8. Re:Parallels - the only time my Mac ever crashed by anaesthetica · · Score: 2, Funny

    Surfing the web: doable on a PC
    Listening to iTunes: doable on a PC
    Installing Opera browser: doable on a PC
    Installing Windows: doable on a PC

    Being extremely smug about it all? Mac only.

    That said, here comes my Mac zealot rejoinder. It's not about what grandparent was doing, it's about what grandparent wasn't doing:

    Cleaning out spyware: only on a PC
    Cleaning out viruses: only on a PC
    Deleting malicious reg keys: only on a PC
    Reinstalling Windows (again): only on a PC
    Rebooting from a BSOD: only on a PC
    Writing apologist posts on /.: platform free!

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  9. Re:In the end, I went with Boot Camp by cygnus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Waving my hand over my Macbook (accomplished with Shadowbook + Virtuedesktops), caused my screen to rotate into either Windows XP or OS X at will.

    do you say "This is not the OS I'm looking for" when you do it? :)

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  10. Re:I have parallels running by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 2, Funny

    If he did pay for it, he wouldn't be a filching freeloader, nor a pilfering parasite, nor a larcenous leech.

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