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Parallels Beta Adds Boot Camp, Desktop
Verunks writes "Parallels has released a new beta of its virtualization product for Mac OS X. This new release includes one major new feature, something Parallels calls Coherency: "Shows Windows applications as if they were Mac ones. Try it and enjoy best of both worlds truly at the same time. No more switching between Windows to Mac OS." Check out this Screenshot"
More interesting to me is the Boot Camp support so you can have a single partition to run IE7 in Parallels to test compatibility of a website but reboot to play video games that need a little more juice.
It's always nice to see 3rd parties fix the deficiencies inherent in OS X. Namely, that it isn't Windows.
and install it onto the laptop so the laptop remains one piece to use ;)
apple "notebooks" are unrealistic for portable usage. they are too hot, battery life is too short, the mouse is unusable, among many other problems.
so to sum it up:
if you're buying a laptop and want it to be portable and usable at the same time, buy a PC
if you're buying a computer and want it to be reasonably priced, buy a PC
if you're buying a computer and want PC compatbility, buy a PC
my last computer purchase was a mac. the retarded one button mouse makes it unusable as a laptop in class. its slow. its hot. its fragile. it needs to constantly be plugged into the wall. its breaking after under 2 years of usage. my computer before that was a dell inspiron notebook, I was very hard on it, dropping it while open, spilling a full cup of water into it, and did a lot of other things to it, and it kept working with absolutely no problems. I only decided to replace it after something got stuck in the fan and physically broke a blade off. the laptop kept working, but the fan started making a loud ticking noise as it was no longer balanced. since I can't really afford a new computer at the moment and the pentium3, 7 year old laptop's only problem is the broken fan, I decided to buy a new fan for it and it now works great. I also decided to buy a new battery for it, and I get a 6 hour battery life. I'm going to buy a second battery for it to increase the battery life to 12 hours (takes 2 primary batteries). its already getting rare to say ibooks and powerbooks because they are all falling apart by now. its pretty sad, but 6-8 year old dells and hps aren't rare at all.