[Macpartners] Dual simultaneous OSes?

[James Cain]

For most Office Suite Apps and similar software, you won't notice  
much difference between these virtualization solutions and the same  
software running on last years Windows PCs.  You will want a fair  
amount of memory 2+ GB RAM.  You'll also have to give up some drive  
space for the guest OS and Apps.

Speaking from direct experience, even computationally intense  
programs, such as MatLab can be run on a WinXP guest OS using a  
MacOSX host OS.  It is not optimal, but it works well enough.

I have both used Parallels and VMware Fusion (If you are more  
experimental you can also try Innoteks VirtualBox - opensource beta -  
http://www.virtualbox.org/ ) and actually prefer VMware, though it is  
still beta.

Regards,
JIm


James R Cain
Educational Technology Consulting
Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, DUE MIT
245 Massachusetts Avenue, N42-250J
Cambridge, MA 02139

617.253.3909



On May 22, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote:

> Hi Al [et al]:
>
> So what you are saying is parallels (or similar software  
> application) is
> required for simultaneous OS operation?   Being a software app, how  
> does
> it benchmark to having a genuine Intel/AMD PC running Windows?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
>
> On Tue, 22 May 2007, Albert Willis wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 22, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>>
>>> I have been the green light to purchase a few machines, one of
>>> which will
>>> be a Mac.   I'm looking at likely getting a high-end desktop, and am
>>> wondering what would then be involved in getting MacOS and Windows
>>> running
>>> simultaneously, and how updated/reliable bootcamp is for drivers?
>>> How
>>> stable is Windows under bootcamp?
>>>
>>> Will I be able to run both OSes simultaneously, as opposed to
>>> utilizing
>>> Parallels, which, from what I've seen, is the Mac equivalent of
>>> VMWare.
>>>
>>> Please educate me.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Scott
>>
>> To run another operating system simultaneously with Mac OS X (such as
>> Windows or Linux) requires virtualization, meaning Parallels Desktop
>> at this time--VMWare Fusion is in beta and won't be 1.0 until
>> sometime this summer. You can get a 15-day free trial from Parallels:
>> http://www.parallels.com/en/download/desktop/. Parallels Desktop can
>> be bought from GovConnection at an educational discount.
>>
>> Boot Camp (http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/) allows you to non-
>> destructively partition a Mac's hard drive and install Windows XP or
>> Vista and allows you to burn a CD of Windows drivers for the Mac's
>> hardware. Once Windows is installed, you have to reboot your machine
>> to use it. The latest drivers are quite good, allowing you to use the
>> Mac's hardware features. Keep in mind that Boot Camp is also beta
>> software; we likely won't see the final version until Mac OS X 10.5
>> "Leopard" ships this fall. It's also important to remember that when
>> booted into Windows, the Mac essentially becomes another Windows PC
>> and has to be administered as such.
>>
>>   -- Al
>>
>>
>> ______________________________
>> Albert Willis
>> Macintosh Platform Coordinator - Software Release Team
>> Client Support Services
>> Information Services and Technology
>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>> awillis at mit.edu
>>
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