I “installed the Mac OS X beta from Parallels and demonstrated the speed of XP by reinstalling Firefox, surfing, and rebooting. Running on Intel iMac 2.0 Ghz (256 MB VRAM, 1.5 GB RAM, 512 MB given to XP),” prodedgy writes on YouTube:
Video permalink: http://youtube.com/watch?v=AC_DuAUTHWI
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Shieldzee” for the heads up.]
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Wow, that xp system does look fast… Faster than Tiger running on the same mac, I’d say.
But hang on a sec… don’t believe everything you see on the internet. XP is old, and deadly slow. No way could it be that fast. All it takes is for the author to speed the footage up a bit (easily done in most video editors), and Hey Presto! – xp on steroids.
But anyway… this is a far better way of implementing windoze on a mac than silly ol’ Boot Camp.
HeLLO! Doesn’t anyone else feeling dirty running windows on Apple hardware? There is very little I need from Windows, maybe Vista will be better, but why do I care? Everyone is jumping up and down because they’ve added Windows to OSX, just too surreal! There are still Mac users who feel abandoned by Apple when OSX came out, many have never moved up, they’re still using systems from the last century. Many feel betrayed by the intel move, they’re not moving over. Now we have Windows actually as an OS on the Mac! Mac only programmers, who there are few left, are being abandoned for those making PC software. Apple is jetisoning the loyal user base that got them through the death knell years only to court money from the pc world. This compromise is dangerous, we may very well be victims of a Trojan horse. Where is the integrity? Have we been blindly following Steve Jobs when he has actually been as evil as Microsoft?
If there is no telling what happens next week, then what is this 6-reasons guy talking about?
Rest my case
>Ron, not in 6’s defense, but why the crack about CA school’s?>
You have to be joking!
Parallels probably boots Windows XP so fast on OS X for the same reason Win4Lin boots Windows 98 in about 2 seconds on Linux: It doesn’t have to initialize any of the hardware. The hardware is probably controlled with the OS X drivers via a single terminal server.
I wonder why Win4Lin wasn’t able to put out a decent XP sandbox for Linux even though they’ve been working on it for years, and yet Parellels, which seemingly came out of nowhere, was able to do it on UNIX so quickly after the release of the X86 Mac.
I just moved out of California after living in Los Angeles for five years. Let me tell you, most of the people I encountered out there don’t have what I would call a 4th grade level knowledge of history, science, civics, math or spelling. Los Angeles schools just pass everybody because they’re so overcrowded and under-funded that they can’t hold everyone back who deserves to be. If you behave yourself, don’t bring guns and knives to class and don’t cause too many problems, you get to move on.
I don’t think that problem is typical of ALL of California’s schools, though. I’m sure Orange County, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and even San Diego’s schools are all doing a much better job than the horrible, horrible schools of Los Angeles County.
The only city with just as bad if not worse public schools is Chicago.
Lets allocate another 180 billion to Iraq, shall we?
Why else would Apple release bootcamp now other than to distract from slower/non-accelearting iPod sales.
Anybody buying a PowerPC computer?
Why else would Apple release bootcamp now other than to distract from slower/non-accelearting iPod sales.
iPod sales might be slower this quarter than last? You mean they cancelled MarchChristmas this year?
>Los Angeles schools just pass everybody because they’re so overcrowded and under-funded that they can’t hold everyone back who deserves to be. >
They’re not under-funded, most of the teachers are not up to scratch and there’s a total lack of discipline. That goes for life in general in our (once)great country. Just look at Un- Holywood.
They’re not under-funded, most of the teachers are not up to scratch and there’s a total lack of discipline.
That’s because they’re under-funded. The class sizes are too big, the equipment is poor and there’s not enough of it, the text books are outdated, and they can’t afford to pay their teachers enough to attract decent, intelligent people to the profession. It all comes back to money.
Let me guess, you’re one of those guys who thinks all these problems would magically go away if they would just post the ten commandments on the walls and force the kids to pray to the christian god every morning?
Let’s just say the pessimists are right – even if Apple DID ditch OS X for Windows, it would be wasting hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of intellectual property. It would have nothing to lose and a lot to gain by licensing it to other PC makers, wouldn’t it?
That is the ugliest thing I have ever seen on a mac.
What a shame.
I know a lot of loyal Apple followers must be upset with boot camp, but I really think Apple is after Dell, HP and all the other computer hardware manufactures. Just think about it, why buy from them when you can run both OS’s on ours? I’ve even read that some people with the help of boot camp have been able to run linux and vista. Apple is totally after hardware sales. As for giving up OSX, Steve loves his OS and most likely hold on to it until he’s gone.
Oh, and it’s a shame Leopard’s virtualization feature will put Parallels and all the other VMware makers out of (the Mac) business.
Wow. Wow wow wow. Apple needs to toss Parallels a few millon bucks and have this standard in Leopard. The ability to get quick access to Windows apps without leaving OSX will really improve the Mac’s popularity.
And remember, it’s not Windows that can run on this thing. It could run Linux. Or hell, even an unstable developer’s build of OSX! (Nice not to have to reboot if the OS crashes.)
jooop, you’re an idiot. Money doesn’t solve all problems. They don’t have competent teachers in CA because CA doesn’t expect their teachers to be competent. That’s obvious from the tests they give their teachers and the low minimum scores they need to pass them.
If you want to live in a socialist country there are many places in Europe that would love to have you. Most of this country’s budget is spent on education and social programs….and geeze look how well we’re doing with the “war on poverty”. That’s the basic liberal mindset….if there’s a problem lets throw money at it, and if we don’t have enough money just raise taxes, raise taxes, raise taxes.
The dirty little secret about freedom is that your on your own.
“I’ve warned all of you, and I do it humbley, but this is too much for the average invester to understand.”
Very hard to take you seriously when you misspell “humbly” and “investor”, two mistakes in one sentence!
“Un-holywood” is redundant, hollywood is used to make magic wands. Duh! Harry Potter!
Now I understand why Apple is (at last) putting goops of VRAM into their iMacs and MBP’s – not only to support more monitors, but virtualisation may require a full 64M for each of Tiger and XP to write to without having to swap VRAM out and lose performance.
your double spacing gives you away….
please go away
Jooop,
CA schools are not underfunded, the state school system has one of the highest per-student budgets in the country.
The majority of the funds doesn’t go to classrooms, it ends up going for administration costs.
I grew up in CA, started school in 1956. CA has gone from being in the top ten nationally to today’s position in the bottom five. The state school system is broken, and raising teacher salaries won’t fix it. (If/when more money is allocated, you can bet that administration costs will still suck up most of the funds.)
Non-state schools have a better record, and they don’t pay generally higher salaries to teachers, among other things. They don’t have to deal with the state teacher’s union, either, which is also broken.
That’s the basic liberal mindset….if there’s a problem lets throw money at it
Your “conservative” president has borrowed more money from foreign countries than all previous presidents COMBINED.
Your “conserviative” president has racked up the highest federal budget deficit in history.
That’s the basic neo-conservative mindset…if there’s a problem, let’s borrow money for it.
>Your “conserviative” president has racked up the highest federal budget deficit in history.>
What’s a conserviative?
I’m an immigrant, but even I know that Congress is the arm of government that spends the money.
Agreed. Apple should buy Parallels. Now.
Dual booting and VM’ing XP, Linux, MacOS. Whatever you want. All on an Apple Macintosh. Why buy anything else?
And all you fools who think this is the end of OS X…
This is more of an end for Windows than MacOS. Windows will now become THE third rate OS it always has been. Apple has just relegated Windows to an also ran on the home desktop. It will be running UNDER MacOS at home and in IT departments. The workplace will still use cheap PCs. No it won’t happen this year or next but it will happen slowly.
MDN word: industry. Industry changes slowly.
Every other PC is now obsolete. Before it’s even manufactured.