On Feb 26, 2007, at 14:38 , Veli-Pekka Tätilä wrote:
Hi Greg,
As you say the Pro seems impressive. My question is, though, how
good is the performance compared to running XP natively? Another
point, which devices show to the guest machine as is and how is the
latency?
Because the Mac now has intel chips the speed of the Windows OS is
the same as if you were running it under the native hardware.
Virtualization is one thing I've been thinking, too. As I've said
earlier in this list, I do have absolute must have Windows apps,
too, so it is iether dual-booting or virtualization and the latter
seems much cooler to me. But one thing that worries me is latency.
It can be a problem in the responsiveness of a Windows screen
reader but especially in low-latency audio inside Windows.
I haven't noticed any problems with productivity software you might
see some in hard core games.
I've used VmWare and VIrtual PC before and neither exposed the host
sound card. That ment unusably long delays in audio apps and some
weird pops and clicks in the WIndows screen reader, too.
This kind of visualization is not anything like Virtual PC that had
to create all the hardware in memory.
Also 3D performance might be another bottleneck, though I don't
play games that much, it would be cool to get the original Half-
Life running with hardware rendering.
I don't do games much so I can't answer this.
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With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Greg Kearney wrote:
I have a MacPro. it's a real rocket ship and I like it a lot. I run
Windows XP in Parallels Desktop on a second screen it's like having
two computers only I can drag items from one to the other.
On Feb 26, 2007, at 14:10 , Veli-Pekka Tätilä wrote:
Hi David,
I see, I think Pro is the way to go then. Well, is there a site
which Would let me pick the configuration from a Web form and show
the price for the Mac Pro then? I tried looking in the Apple store
but failed to find such a thing in there. I might be looking in the
wrong place, too, as all prices were in US dollars where as Euros
would be more straightforward for me, of course. Not that I'd get
any machine soon but it would be good to be able to compare the
prices of various custom PC and Mac systems.
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