[BNM] Going Mac

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I'm also still waiting for my new macbook for be delivered...

I'm wondering why anyone would pay for Parallels when Virtualbox is free and
does the same job ? - can anyone enlighten me ?? Thanks.

cheers,
Andy

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2008/10/30 Hazlitt Eastman <heastman at i-zimbra.com>

> My Mac Book is about 3 months old and I have been using Parallels 3 ever
> since I got it.  I use it for XP and Linux virtual machines and it works
> really well.
>
> Hazlitt
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> Sent: 30 October 2008 11:42
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] Going Mac
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> Cheers Paul.
>
> Looking at the Parrallels site I can get two copies for around 100
> USD....which is cool.
>
> - Alan
>
> On 30 Oct 2008, at 11:30, Paul Silver wrote:
>
> > I've found Parallels fine. My MacBook's almost two years old so it's
> > got
> > the Core Duo 2Ghz processor, and 2Gb of RAM. I can happily run Windows
> > 2000 in Parallels and within it IE without any trouble. I've set the
> > virtual machine for Windows to have something around 700Mb of RAM,
> > basically as long as you've got plenty of spare RAM, the virtual
> > machine
> > will run fine (which is true of alternatives to Parallels too.)
> >
> > I've also run the IBM/Yahoo Omnifind product which is a
> > search-engine-in-a-box type package within Parallels on Windows and
> > it's
> > worked fine too. It probably takes more resources than looking at some
> > web pages in IE (although knowing IE, maybe not.)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:14:58 +0000, "Alan Newman"
> > <alan at sensibledevelopment.com> said:
> >> I am looking in to getting a virtual machine as well - just for
> >> browser testing.
> >>
> >> Is parallels really that bad?
> >>
> >> - Alan
> >>
> >> On 26 Oct 2008, at 23:03, David Andrew wrote:
> >>
> >>> Just be testing virtualbox and I can happily say it performs
> >>> fantastically smoothly compared to Parallels which would hang the
> >>> machine right left and center. In fairness I up the ram from 1 to
> >>> 3gig. The interface on virtualbox is allot clearer to use too.
> >>>
> >>> V happy - good one Jules for pointing it out.
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