OT: vista cool feature!

[Chris Rendall]

> The main topic of the local Apple users group main meeting this month
was
> Parallels which allows one to run Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris,
and
> other Intel-based Operating Systems under OS X on the new Intel based
Macs
> (they had a drawing for a couple of copies of Parallels, but I didn't
buy
> any tickets as winning would have meant that I would simply have to
buy a
> new Intel Mac as the two I have are PowerPC :-).
> 
> The folks from Parallels did say that the performance of XP is far
better
> than Vista under Parallels (surprise, surprise :-), and recommended
that
> one stick with XP.  The Microsoft EULA prohibits running any of the
> lower-priced versions of Vista under any virtualization such as
Parallels,
> Xen, or VMWare.
> 
> I have a friend who works for Sun who uses one of the new Apple Quad
> towers
> with three monitors, running Windows and Solaris on top of OS X.  He
has
> Windows on one monitor and splits his other tasks between the other
two.
> 

I've been running Parallels for almost a year now and it works very
well.  They've been adding a bunch of features since it first came out
last year.  The new Coherence mode puts just the Windows task bar at the
bottom of the screen and you can run Windows applications seamlessly
along side OS X applications.  

The performance of running Windows on top of OS X is excellent.
Yesterday I was watching the on-demand March Madness basketball on
Internet Explorer 7 in Windows XP while using other OS X apps and the
video didn't miss a beat.  

I also have Vista running on Parallels and it runs fine, but XP is
faster in a VM.
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