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I can finally do work at home. This is great!]]>Apr 6th 2006 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 6th 2006 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/I'm afraid not. Gamers will still use pc for the better hardware available for a lower price.
Nothing against apple macs, but they just arent gaming machines, and fanboys should stop pretending they are. An x1600 is NOT a card for 'serious' gaming. ]]>Apr 6th 2006 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 6th 2006 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/more is here: http://windows.czweb.org/840_Windows_XP_on_a_MAC?]]>Apr 6th 2006 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/
Correction: Apple *iMacs* are not gaming machines. They are not serious anything machines. The imac has always been intended for general purpose computing. For more horsepower, the Powermac was always the way to go. Apple has not released the intel based version of the powermac but you can be sure it's on the way.

It won't be cheap though.]]>Apr 6th 2006 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/
I'm not sure anyone is saying this. Any "serious" Mac-using gamer already has a second PC just for gaming. The dual-booting will work we'll for the casual gamer who wants to play one or two PC titles that haven't been ported to the Mac yet. If you're not competing seriously online, the x1600 will work just fine for the majority of games out now.
]]>Apr 6th 2006 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 6th 2006 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/
*cough*bullshit*cough*

]]>Apr 6th 2006 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/
And as an above poster said...The PowerMac intel would be the way to go for a solid gaming desktop. I imagine it'll run just as well as my XPS 600.]]>Apr 6th 2006 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 6th 2006 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/But what I hate is when fanboys start saying that macs are better for gaming, when they just have no idea what they are talking about
e.g. a mac fanboy that I know came up to saying he had tried the dual-boot (a mac fanboy with a windows xp disc?... anyway) and that his macbook was now running WOW ( a game that is getting pretty old technologicaly) better than any pc could..
I agree that a powermac would have quite the punch but is more expensive than an equivalent pc (albeit with a better OS and nice design)

ah well, if only I had the cash for a top of the line powermac....]]>Apr 6th 2006 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Parallels virtual machine and Boot Camp. No reason to reboot into Windows (etc) unless you really need to.

When is the virtual machine coming out for Windows that lets you run your OSX partition in it? :^)]]>Apr 6th 2006 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 6th 2006 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Nothing against apple macs, but they just arent gaming machines, and fanboys should stop pretending they are. An x1600 is NOT a card for 'serious' gaming."

Lower price? Dual SLI Graphics card and 64 bit Dual CPU are not exactly cheap. If you dont play those kind of games x1600 is probably enough.]]>Apr 6th 2006 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 6th 2006 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 6th 2006 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Parallels Workstation virtualizes a full set of the standard PC hardware including:
CPU Intel Pentium II;
Generic motherboard compatible with Intel i815 chipset;
RAM up to 1500 MB;
VGA and SVGA with VESA 3.0 support;
1.44 MB floppy drive (mapped to a physical drive or to an image file);
Up to four IDE devices, that may be either virtual hard drives (from 20 MB up to 128 GB
each, mapped to image file), or CD/DVD-ROM drives (mapped to physical drive or to
image file), or both hard drives and CD/DVD-ROM drives;
Ethernet virtual network card compatible with RTL8029. Parallels Workstation for
Windows and for Mac supports bridging to wireless network adapters;
Up to four serial (COM) ports (mapped to real port, to pipe or to output file);
Up to three bi-directional parallel (LPT) ports (mapped to real port, to printer or to output
file);
Standard PC keyboard;
PS/2 wheel mouse.


a PII, huh? that's some near-native performance, right there.]]>Apr 6th 2006 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/--
said to provide "near native" performance,"

*cough*bullshit*cough*
--

Well, actually, no. Like Marc said, this is not like Virtual PC. Parallels's software allows you to run an alternative OS using the virtualization features of the Intel processor. No emulation here.

The early reports are that it runs fast. Video here:
http://www.prodedgy.com/article/51

]]>Apr 6th 2006 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 6th 2006 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/
*cough*bullshit*cough*"

I knew someone would make a comment like this...

It's not bullshit. It *is* running natively. It's *not* emulation, like VirtualPC or other similar apps. It is running Windows directly on Windows-compliant hardware.

WINE for Linux/Unix works the same way (although it doesn't run the actual OS) - the apps are running on their native hardware, and all that really needs translating is some of the graphics API's so that it can actually draw on the screen in the OS you're actually running.

So yes, this does mean gaming is pretty much out. Everything else is fair game. And if you're doing something like encoding video that's strictly reliant on the processor and bus bandwidth, it's not going to make any difference whatsoever if you do it in a windowed version of XP running on the Mac OS vs. a regular Windows boot.
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Anyone try this see if XP can use the built-in iSight camera?]]>Apr 6th 2006 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/
Back on subject: When are there going to be a proliferation of hacks to allow us to run OS X on a "normal" Windows PC? That's the hack that I could -afford- to try!]]>Apr 6th 2006 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 6th 2006 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/
Personally, I've used VPN in emulation before, I have no reason to believe it wouldn't work within Parallels. It's a full-blown Windows XP environment.]]>Apr 6th 2006 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/
Yeah, Macs are also missing the neon lights and dragon-shaped fan grilles. :P

"i'm still never buying a mac. i've had enough problems with the damn ipods not working with disc mode."

Hmm, could it be a WINDOWS PC problem?]]>Apr 6th 2006 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/
http://www.prodedgy.com/article/51

Personally, I've used VPN in emulation before, I have no reason to believe it wouldn't work within Parallels. It's a full-blown Windows XP environment.]]>Apr 6th 2006 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 6th 2006 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/
Anyhoo, back to the subject, this is exciting, seems like everything is bursting with xp on x news. As long as the price is about 50 bucks I will buy this quickly. The only thing missing is a WINE-like skin, that would be perfect.]]>Apr 6th 2006 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 6th 2006 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 6th 2006 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 6th 2006 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 6th 2006 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 6th 2006 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 6th 2006 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/
Someone may as well make a dual CPU motherboard to run Windows and OSX simultaneously.]]>Apr 6th 2006 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/
http://kberg.ch/q/index.php?sid=314618&p=0

Except for the fact that this has a license cost associated.

Has anyone tested the beta version and compared it to this?]]>Apr 6th 2006 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/
*cough*bullshit*cough*
// -- i installed.. runs faster than native windows! Boots XP Pro in 30 seconds flat!]]>Apr 6th 2006 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/
If anyone's still reading this thread, I made another video showing a clock so you can see it's not accelerated.

http://www.prodedgy.com/article/52]]>Apr 7th 2006 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/"How is this any different from the Q project?"

This works on the MacTel platform Q does not, just like Virtual PC does not.]]>Apr 7th 2006 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 7th 2006 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/parallels-provides-xp-on-mac-in-virtual-machine/Apr 12th 2006 12:21PM