See your link here
Parallels lowers the impact of Boot Camp
14 comments- IT TOPICS:Desktop Applications, Macintosh & Apple, Software
You know a company has had an influence on Apple when Apple start selling their product through the website. Parallels is one such product, and they announced yesterday that Parallels Desktop Hits Apple Store.
Parallels has been hitting Apple's Boot Camp on the nose as a solution for those people who need or want to run an alternative OS on their Intel based Apple Macs. They both have benefits and opposing pitfalls. Boot Camp provides compatibility and performance but requires a reboot between switches. Parallels enables you to run both simultaneously, and the performance is great for everything but graphics-intensive environments.
For me, the decision was simple. I trashed my Boot Camp partition last week, because I no longer need it -- Parallels does everything I want, and more. Right now I'm running Windows XP, Gentoo, Kubuntu and Solaris 10 through Parallels with no discernable problems or issues. In fact, I get the many benefits you can obtain from VMs, like the ability to duplicate a VM for alternative testing (without upsetting the original), and the ability to play with configurations without requiring hardware changes (playing with ZFS in Solaris becomes much easier when you can arbitrarily add new HDs and devices).
I'm not the only one who has dumped Boot Camp, and it will be interesting to see how Boot Camp survives and evolves, especially with the upcoming developer's conference where rumours abound on what might be announced. I don't see Boot Camp disappearing -- it solves a problem with no additional costs and many performance benefits -- but how Boot Camp is sold and marketed may change.
Print
Email this
Digg this
