![]() Now if I have to reboot the guest to install or fix something, I can keep working in email while the guest reboots. Bad apps don’t take me down altogether – I deal with a lot of beta and third party software that just isn’t as reliable as it should be. ![]() ![]() Today, I prefer doing my development and research work in virtual machines because: They both work better than you’d expect – you can drag & drop files between OS’s, make the OS boundary disappear altogether, and launch apps across OS’s.įor years, virtualization got a bad rap because it was slower, but today that’s just not the case. Parallels is faster and has more recent DirectX support, so if you’re doing graphics-heavy BI stuff like GeoFlow, get Parallels. There’s two products available to help you run Windows in a window, VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop. Let’s get that out of the way right here and now with a quick demo video of VMware Fusion: If you’re reading this, you probably make a living working with Windows software, and you’re worried about how it’ll work. Update October 2013 – updated to include the current Apple laptop lineup. So you’re tired of craptastic plastic, and you’re noticing more and more Windows people toting around shiny metal computers? Here’s what you need to know.
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