I will say that as good as Parallels is, and it’s great, my machine always acts a little strangely when it’s running. I find that in practice, it just doesn’t work all that well. I think the coherence feature is pretty bogus, even though the blogosphere is all excited about it.
It’s my virtualization of choice at the moment. The team has built a program which gets better by the month, it seems. I’ve been using Parallels for about 6 months now, and it works incredibly well. Also interesting to play around with Ubuntu and notice what great strides they’re making in terms of getting Linux to “just work” in lots of different cases.
Parallels vs vmware linux windows#
So I like periodically living in Windows XP or Vista for a bit of time so that I don’t lose my muscle memory. The Venice Project is a good example (that I’m going to experiment with and hopefully blog about later this week).Ĥ) Remembering what Windows is like, and playing around with Vista - as much as I like my current OS X operating environment (and I do, a lot - it works the best of any system that I’ve ever used, really), it’s important to remember that most of the world doesn’t have the same experience (for lots of reasons, not just OS X). Maybe I’ll post about that in another note.)Ģ) Firefox - As Firefox is pretty much my bread and butter, and we run on (more than) Windows, Linux, and OS X, it’s great to be able to flip over to Windows or Ubuntu or whatever to see how it works, test out issues that get reported by partners, that sort of thing.ģ) Other new stuff - Less frequent than previously, but every once in a while, something comes out that only runs on Windows.
It’s made a bigger problem lately by the lack of a Universal Binary, which means that it’s running emulated (slooooooI know I’ll still need Excel & Word from time to time, but not nearly as much. I’ve gone back and forth on this one, have used Quicken in both environments a bunch, and just can’t get happy with the OS X version. One of the great things about it is virtualization - the ability to run other operating systems as guest processes while still working in OSX.ġ) Quicken - Quicken for Windows is significantly more feature-rich and less crashy than Quicken for OS X.
Parallels vs vmware linux pro#
I’ve really enjoyed having my Intel-based MacBook Pro this last year or so - while it’s a bit of a quirky machine and runs hotter than the sun, it’s probably my favorite laptop I’ve ever had.