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From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 22 Apr 2010 22:14 No, I haven't found Jesus, but what I'm going to announce may be more shocking. And it will work its way around to a perfectly on-topic question. For those who doubt, the on-topic question will be opinions of Parallels vs Fusion. OK, so here goes: I am going to purchase a copy of Windows 7. A week ago, I took up customer support a position with Agile Web Solutions, the makers of 1Password for the Mac and i{Phone,Pad}. I'm sure you've all heard me rave about 1Password. Now when I do so, I'll have to add a disclosure statement. Well there is, as of today, 1Password Beta for Windows. Thus my need to be able to run and test Windows programs. Newegg has a Windows 7 Home Premium & and Parallels combo deal for 220USD. Since I will probably need Parallels or Fusion or something like that for other reasons as well, this looks like it will ultimately be cheaper than just trying to find the cheapest new PC with Windows 7 bundled. Anyway, I would like to hear experiences of using Parallels or Fusion or alternatives. I'm on a Mac Pro (Early 2009) Quad Core Xeon 2.66 GHz and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120. I've got two empty disk bays to spare. Currently the machine has 5G memory. Is there anything I need to watch out for with this approach? Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read top-posted, over-quoting or HTML postings. http://improve-usenet.org/
From: Tom Harrington on 22 Apr 2010 23:11 In article <alpine.OSX.2.00.1004222049590.30443(a)olympe.ewd.goldmark.org>, Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote: > A week ago, I took up customer support a position with Agile Web > Solutions, the makers of 1Password for the Mac and i{Phone,Pad}. I'm sure > you've all heard me rave about 1Password. Now when I do so, I'll have to > add a disclosure statement. Hey, congratulations. I know some of the developers there, they're a good group of people. -- Tom "Tom" Harrington Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002 http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: Jamie Kahn Genet on 23 Apr 2010 00:08 Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote: > No, I haven't found Jesus, but what I'm going to announce may be more > shocking. And it will work its way around to a perfectly on-topic > question. For those who doubt, the on-topic question will be opinions of > Parallels vs Fusion. > > OK, so here goes: I am going to purchase a copy of Windows 7. > > A week ago, I took up customer support a position with Agile Web > Solutions, the makers of 1Password for the Mac and i{Phone,Pad}. I'm sure > you've all heard me rave about 1Password. Now when I do so, I'll have to > add a disclosure statement. > > Well there is, as of today, 1Password Beta for Windows. Thus my need to > be able to run and test Windows programs. > > Newegg has a Windows 7 Home Premium & and Parallels combo deal for 220USD. > Since I will probably need Parallels or Fusion or something like that for > other reasons as well, this looks like it will ultimately be cheaper than > just trying to find the cheapest new PC with Windows 7 bundled. > > Anyway, I would like to hear experiences of using Parallels or Fusion or > alternatives. I'm on a Mac Pro (Early 2009) Quad Core Xeon 2.66 GHz and > NVIDIA GeForce GT 120. I've got two empty disk bays to spare. Currently > the machine has 5G memory. > > Is there anything I need to watch out for with this approach? > > Cheers, > > -j Windows 7 is the best ever Windows, no doubt. That said you'll still have to be very careful about security - all the usual applies: update constantly, use minority-share we browsers and email clients, beware strange files and websites, etc, etc. As for virtualisation - I like Fusion best. It's been more stable and slightly fast than Parallels IME. Don't forget there's also an almost as good free alternative: <http://www.virtualbox.org/>. Unless you want to do stuff like play Windows games Virtual Box is probably more than enough for your needs. On your system you ought to get near 95% native speeds running Win7 in virtualisation if you give it a couple cores, at least 3GB RAM (maybe now is a good time to upgrade your RAM since you'll want both Win7 and OSX to have plenty), and install it to a fast HD. The really nice part about virtualising Windows of course, is if you backup and take snapshots of it's image, you'll never have a problem recovering from disaster or a security issue (I never trust a Windows install to be clean after it's first been compromised). You can be back up and running in under a minute, literally. -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 23 Apr 2010 00:49 On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Tom Harrington wrote: > Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote: > >> A week ago, I took up customer support a position with Agile Web >> Solutions, the makers of 1Password for the Mac and i{Phone,Pad}. I'm sure >> you've all heard me rave about 1Password. Now when I do so, I'll have to >> add a disclosure statement. > Hey, congratulations. Thank you! > I know some of the developers there, they're a good group of people. Indeed they are. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read top-posted, over-quoting or HTML postings. http://improve-usenet.org/
From: dorayme on 23 Apr 2010 18:07
In article <g.kreme-587768.06150023042010(a)news.iad.newshosting.com>, Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontemailme> wrote: > In article <4bd185f0$0$5349$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, > Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > For your purposes, I'd look into Boot Camp, if it supports Win 7, or > > even a cheap wintel-ish laptop ... > > The only reason to use BootCamp is for gaming. The only reason? -- dorayme |