Nuking Bootcamp
on 05.10.06, 06:30am in mac • comments (6)
After several weeks, I’ve decided to go ahead and nuke BootCamp from the MacBook and save myself 20GB. For my workflow, I’ve found that running Parallels Workstation is a much more fluid of an ‘experience’ for me, and I like the thought of being able to completely being able to ’snapshot’ my harddrive and going to back to a specific point in time. I’m sure I’ll end up going back to dual boot once Vista is released though (or, perhaps Parallels will add ACPI support).
Not to mention that the more recent betas have added all sorts of jaw-dropping animations when switching between fullscreen and windowed mode.
Brad Wilson (May 10, 2006 @ 8:46 am)
You realize that the animation you’re seeing there is Virtue (the virtual desktop manager), right?
He’s flipping between virtual desktops, one of which is the root OS X desktop and 2 of which are running full screen parallels sessions (with XP and RedHat).
JeffMc (May 10, 2006 @ 8:56 am)
Yeah, I noticed they were taking advantage of coregraphics, like fast user switching and YouControl desktop does. Pretty cool. The USB supprt needs to improve a bit, especially with composite devices. But Beta6 seems pretty awesome. And it is definitely worth $39.95 (discount if you buy now)
Mike Moore (May 10, 2006 @ 11:00 am)
Hey Steve, I *finally* for my copy of XP SP2 (non upgrade) last night and installed it on my MacBook Pro using Parallels. All in all I’m fairly impressed with Parallels, although if feels a tad slower than I expected. I can’t wait to use it to edit Ruby in VS.NET 2005 running Steel all on my MacBook at my next Ruby user group.
I wish Parallels would change resolutions when I switch XP to full screen mode however. Then it could be 1280×800 windowed, and 1440×900 full screen.
I may keep BootCamp around so I can play Half Life 2. But I doubt I’ll install anything other than games on it.
Steve (May 10, 2006 @ 11:34 am)
Yes, I was aware about the Virtue animations. Parallels is now using them when switching between fullscreen and windowed.
Mike - you can do this. I have Parallels at 1024×768 when windowed, and 1440×900 when full screen. More here: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=1609&highlight=full+screen
Basically:
Uncheck the preference setting “Change Mac OS X Resolution” on the “User Interface” tab of the preferences window. Run Parallels in a window, then set the resolution to 1024×768, then enter full-screen mode. It should flip to 1440×900.
Nat (May 10, 2006 @ 11:43 am)
How does Parallels compare to Vmware ? I’d be interested in running it on windows to run a virtual windows where I can test things, is it faster than vmware ?
Steve (May 10, 2006 @ 12:21 pm)
No idea on how it is on Windows, only have tried it on the Mac.