The other day I mentioned that I am (finally) back on the Mac. Well, today I had some time to finish up installing my MacBook Pro an one of these installations was installing Bootcamp, Parallels and of course Windows XP.
First off, I am truly amazed at the speed of Parallels and the new coherence feature it has. Actually I went so far that I run Photoshop CS3 (MacOSX), Parallels (MacOSX), Updating Windows over Wireless Lan (Windows), downloading a file in FireFox (Windows) and running ColdFusion and Oracle as a service (Windows) and at the same time writing this message in Firefox (MacOSX).
If I had told this someone two years ago, they would have thought that I am cheating but see for yourself:
I would also like to mention that Apple has done a great job with Bootcamp. It was simply a matter of running the Bootcamp Assistant, following the manual, and installing Windows XP. Once back into MacOS X, installing Parallels and using the Custom Installation for choosing the Bootcamp partition. Simple tasks, for an amazing solution.
I have used VMWare Workstation on Windows many times before but it was never so easy to install and use another OS within a Host system. Did I mention that a simple drag and drop copies files back and forth between MacOS X and Windows XP?
Actually with a setup like this, I don’t think there is anything holding anybody back from getting an Apple system anymore.
