Agreed.
I've been running a Bootcamp Win XP on my MacBook Pro for some time
and recently installed the Parallels 2.5 beta which allows you to use
your existing Bootcamp installation as a VM. Despite some ealy issue
with activation, the latest beta (build 3106) is working perfectly.
The new Coherence mode is also very cool, USB 2.0 now works, drag and
drop files between OS's, shared clipboard and I can either boot into
Win XP or just have it running inside Mac OS X from the same XP
installation.
--Mark
On 30 Dec 2006, at 23:08, Jimmy Dutt wrote:
> Popped Parallels and Win XP Pro SP2 on my MBP today (2.33GHz C2D w/
> 3GB
> RAM). This is about the most perfect setup I could ever imagine
> running.
>
> Ever.
>
> Parallels self-configured and ran the entire XP installation, and when
> complete (and it really didn't take very long) everything just worked.
> Mighty mouse, networking, audio, CD/DVD, it even figured out the
> screen
> resolution in FS mode, and the few Windows programs I've installed
> so far
> (like Director MX) seem to run quite well. All I did was do a
> little memory
> load balancing (which will probably take a bit more tweaking).
>
> I'm just flat-out amazed at how cool this is going to be to have,
> on one
> frigging machine, all my core apps running together - at the same
> time.
>
> And the looks you get when people hear the XP startup sound coming
> from a
> Mac is hysterical ;-)
>
> Anyway - I just wanted to let folks know that it's an incredibly
> smooth and
> dumbass-proof process, so if you were thinking about taking the
> plunge I
> highly recommend it. I know it's going to help make my new year a
> very
> happy one indeed ;-)
>
> -jimmy ("two toes up!")
>
> --
>
> Jimmy Dutt
> SOS Video Communications
> 612 Park St. Columbus, OH 43215
> P: 614.221.0966 F: 614.221.3836
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