[X4U] Parallels vs. Boot Camp

[Hector Luna]

On 4/7/06 6:41 AM, "Jim Robertson" <jamesrob at sonic.net> wrote:

> Hard to believe that a PII processor and USB 1.1 will keep lots of folks
> happy.

The PII refers to the architecture of the emulated chip and isn¹t an
indication of the clock speed. I haven¹t used the Parallels emulator but I
have used VM Ware with both Linux and Windows as the the host and guest OS
and I didn¹t see a drop in performance. Of all the issues I came across
while perusing the Parallels user forums, I did not see anyone complain
about performance, mostly stability issues.

As for the USB, I think you¹re right. Personally, it would just be an
annoyance since my only 2.0 device is a thumb drive and I¹d only have to
suffer through a slower data throughput.

I do think that, even considering all of its limitations, this is tremendous
and once the stability issues have been addressed I¹m going to be trading in
my G4 PowerBook for a new MacBook...

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