Firstly, what I meant to write is: >>> 1) Ability to re-use your Boot Camp partition from within *MAC OS X* >>> as a "virtual" drive.
Basically, under Boot Camp your Intel-based MacBook step into a telephone booth and become an exceptionally stylish Windows notebook. You hold down the Option key when the machine starts up. You get a menu with two icons: your Macintosh and the Windows drive. - If you choose the Windows drive, you boot directly into XP or Vista. The Macintosh disk is not accessible to you within Windows. You are running with 100% native Windows drivers for all peripherals, and Windows is taking over the whole machine, working directly with your hardware, as if you were running it on a DELL or HP laptop. Games run at full speed and take advantage of any hardware acceleration on the video card. There are zero compatibility issues. - If you choose the Macintosh icon, you boot into OS X. The Boot Camp partition will show as a second hard drive icon on your desktop. If it was formatted with FAT32, you are limited to 30GB but you will be able to read and write files to that drive from OS X. If it was formatted with NTFS, you will only be able to read, not write, to that drive. Without additional software, you cannot run programs from the Windows side unless you reboot and choose the Windows icon. - Under Parallels, you can create any number of virtual machines for various i386-based operating systems. Usually you have to create a "virtual disk" for each OS, which lives as a file on your Mac disk. The very convenient thing about the latest "RC" versions of Parallels is that they let you specify the aforementioned Boot Camp partition as the source of a "virtual" machine. Once you do this it has several advantages: 1) You do not need to purchase two copies of Windows 2) You do not need to waste hard disk space on a second "virtual hard drive" 3) Changes to the Boot Camp partition are reflected whether you use the native environment or the virtual one. You don't have to install your applications twice, etc. 4) You can use Parallels most of the time to access the PC-side, using Boot Camp only when necessary for the extra speed/compatibility it offers. When running under Mac OS X, you have full access to your Boot Camp partition, applications and data. You can run any Windows application side-by-side with your Mac applications. You can drag-drop files from one environment to another. If you copy something in Windows, you can paste it into Mac, and vice-versa. (Regarding Bluetooth: My wireless Mighty Mouse works, so that's all I care about.) - As for Coherence: It basically releases Windows applications from their "box." In every other "virtual" PC environment, when you launch the "guest operating system" it appears as a single window (or full-screen) with the whole PC and its applications therein. With Parallels Coherence, you have the ability to eliminate the Windows desktop and Start menu/task bar if you like. This presents any application to you under Mac OS X as its own window independently. It can be both jarring and eerie, but also very cool. It has the benefit of making it easier and completely seamless to switch between Mac and Windows applications. Screen real estate is conserved. Individual Windows apps can be added to your Mac OS X dock and launched directly from there. It doesn't feel like you're switching OS'es. The only way to tell an app isn't a Mac OS X program is the tell-tale blue Windows title bar. "Ian Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 1) Boot Camp sets up a new partition on your HD and you can install > Windows on that partition, then swap between Mac OS and Windows by > rebooting. For some hardware testing this is better than virtualisation > as the OS is dealing with the hardware directly. For instance, you get > access to the internal Bluetooth, which doesn't (last time I looked) work > under Parallels. > > The beta version of Parallels let's you use this 'existing' copy of > Windows instead of needing a second install. > > 2) Windows application windows interleaved with Mac windows, instead of > it all being kept within the Parallels window/desktop. Personally I'm not > too keen as it's a horrible mess visually, but I can see the attraction > for others. > > Ian > > On 20 Feb 2007, at 13:39, Jim Carwardine wrote: > >> Bill, can you give a few more details about the two plusses you listed. >> Having only used Parallels and not Boot Camp I don't understand point 1 >> and having only survival knowledge of Windows, point 2 leaves me >> wondering as well... Jim >> >> on 2/19/07 11:32 PM, Bill Marriott wrote: >>> 1) Ability to re-use your Boot Camp partition from within Windows as a >>> "virtual" drive. >>> >>> 2) Coherence -- the ability to run Windows applications without the >>> Windows _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
