I think in terms of speed you are correct but I have been using
Parallels for about 4 months now> I have problems with Parallels
running programs like Rhapsody so I am pretty sure there are some
compromises "under the hood". For my money, boot camp is the "real
thing" while Parallels is a really quick and neat windows environment
that is not 100% compatible (at least yet).
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On Feb 20, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
A brief note about "virtualization" a la Parallels:
This ain't your father's virtualization. If you've ever used
Virtual PC, it's similar only in convenience. But in performance
it's in a whole other universe, effectively redefining what
virtualization means.
In the olden days, virtualization had to take place at the lowest
levels, translating every machine instruction one by one, millions
of times per second, from the Intel instruction set Windows is
written for to the PPC set it was running on under Virtual PC.
But on Intel Macs, there's really very little being translated at
all. Machine instructions simply get passed right through to the
Intel processor, and only a small handful of operations regarding
peripheral devices (CD, Internet, etc.) require any remapping at all.
So in terms of compatibility testing I doubt there's much
difference between Parallels and Boot Camp. But in terms of
convenience they couldn't be father apart:
The one thing Parallels does that's similar to Virtual PC is allow
folders to be shared between the native Mac OS and the Windows OS
running inside of it. This means you can easily assign a
development folder to be shared with Parallels, and work on it in
either OS simultaneously. You can make your builds on either OS
and run them in the other -- no reboot necessary. You can move
from one OS to another effortlessly, without stopping anything
you're doing in either.
Sharing folders and running the OSes simultaneously means an order-
of-magnitude productivity boost over the quit-reboot-start-over
routine required with Boot Camp.
Parallels is so superior in terms of workflow I'll gladly put
myself out on this limb, just as I did years ago when I first
suggested Apple would one day switch to Intel: I predict that not
too long from now Apple will acquire Parallels, and ditch Boot Camp
altogether. Stranger things have happened....
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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