hey hey1 all right this thing is cool.
I need a little bit of guidance though because I am lost, when first
booting windows xp pro I had a full boot and the desktop loaded. but
no keyboard or mouse activity either way i didn't get anyting out of
it, including sound etc. granted I am booting off the bootcamp
partition but am willing to install xp directly but don't know how,
can I get some advise please on the best way to do this? thanks.
On Apr 17, 2007, at 5:06 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:
James. One just has to be careful, that's all. I like to use the
Mac for as much as I can. But whether we like it or not, there are
still some things which it just isn't yet possible to do because of
accessibility. Also, as I said in my last post, I have beta test
requirements. To satisfy these, I need to use Windows. To do
that, I use Fusion which, as far as I'm concerned, is now the best
virtualisation solution because of the accessibility which it
affords in its interface. Parallels Desktop is a good product.
But its interface is inaccessible beyond the top level menu. The
developers were very helpful, at first. But once I started talking
to them about accessibility, things went very quiet. I think
that's sad actually, as Parallels has a lot going for it as well.
But there it is, for whatever it is worth. I get far better
benchmarks in Windows under Fusion than Parallels. Also, Fusion
experimentally supports DirectX 8.1 at the moment, although I'm
sure they will improve that. To my knowledge, this isn't yet
supported under Parallels - although I could be wrong. So to
answer your question, I guess it depends upon your needs. I don't
have a problem with the Windows side of it because I take
preventative measures. But that doesn't mean to say I'm not
careful about what I do. I've never made any secret of the fact
that I dislike the Windows operating system in general. But sadly,
it's a necessary evil.
On 17 Apr 2007, at 12:30, James Austin wrote:
So can I ask, is Fusion or soething similar worth invsting in. I am
I would say a complete mac convert, but are there advantages to
running Windows? Arent we then open to viruses on the Windows side
even though t is virtual?
