[Ti] a Mac OS X/Windows dual booting machine

[Mike Stanley]

On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 11:49 PM, b wrote:

> Was, is right. I had a friend over last week, who has been a 
> Macromedia/Photoshop/design guy on the PC/Wintel platform, for years, 
> and I said, "Hey, Joe, watch this." And I booted, from a cold start, 
> Win XP, in VPC, and it just opened, so fast [from the 'saved state' it 
> had been in for a month], and occupied my entire 22" external monitor. 
> Operational in no time. He flipped. He happened to have his Sony 
> laptop, and booted Win 2k on it, and it was twice as long, easily, 
> before he was operational.

Your friend flipped because you compared two completely different - not 
even remotely related things?

That would be like me comparing how fast my TiBook recovers from being 
asleep and the amount of time it takes my G4 to boot-up.

VMWare on the PC side (which outperforms VPC on the Mac by a country 
mile, albeit probably being easier to emulate x86 hardware on x86 
hardware) can do the same "magic" saved state thing as well.

That having been said, I always save the state of my VPC's as well - 
but I don't find their restore time to be anything worth flipping over 
- other than it being convenient.