#5: Dual booting is all well and good, but can only get you so far. It's still a pain to have to reboot your system to bring up another OS.
What #2 is talking about is NOT emulation, which implies instructions are translated from one ISA to another... but VIRTUALIZATION. Think VMWare.
The new Core Duo chips in these new Macs support Vanderpool virtualization technology. This means two OSes coexisting on a level that they haven't been able to do before.
It is not "fanboy" to think that all of this money and effort wasted on trying to dual boot and destroying iMacs in the process is complete wasted effort. In a sense it is wasted effort.
These people should be instead focusing on trying to leverage the virtualization features so you don't have to compromise in running two or three OSes on the same system simultaneously.
What would be better? Booting into Windows, wasting minutes to switch over to Windows to run one app, or to switch instantly to Windows or Linux when you need them without shutting down OS X?
I think the answer is clear. Virtualization is the key technology that people are ignoring... not just dual booting.
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#5: Dual booting is all well and good, but can only get you so far. It's still a pain to have to reboot your system to bring up another OS.
What #2 is talking about is NOT emulation, which implies instructions are translated from one ISA to another... but VIRTUALIZATION. Think VMWare.
The new Core Duo chips in these new Macs support Vanderpool virtualization technology. This means two OSes coexisting on a level that they haven't been able to do before.
It is not "fanboy" to think that all of this money and effort wasted on trying to dual boot and destroying iMacs in the process is complete wasted effort. In a sense it is wasted effort.
These people should be instead focusing on trying to leverage the virtualization features so you don't have to compromise in running two or three OSes on the same system simultaneously.
What would be better? Booting into Windows, wasting minutes to switch over to Windows to run one app, or to switch instantly to Windows or Linux when you need them without shutting down OS X?
I think the answer is clear. Virtualization is the key technology that people are ignoring... not just dual booting.