“I can’t even find Apple’s own Boot Camp mentioned on the ‘you can even run Windows’ page of Apple’s Get a Mac site – surprisingly, it’s Parallels Desktop that has the spotlight now,” David Chartier writes for The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).
Chartier asks, “Could Apple be giving Boot Camp the back seat in favor of the no-rebooting convenience of Parallels Desktop? Or might Parallels be working with Apple on virtualization (or a buyout) for the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard?”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “jk,” “LinuxGuy” and “Cathy” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Indeed, Apple’s “You can even run Windows software” page of the company’s “Get a Mac” web section eschews Boot Camp in favor of Parallels Desktop for Mac. We always thought Parallels had better hurry up and make their money quickly now, before Leopard debuts. But, what if Apple’s working with Parallels to include the technology in Mac OS X Leopard? What do you think?
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If Apple is working with Parellis, I hope they can come up with a way to get full hardware accelleration out of it for games. In it’s current state, you can’t use it for Windows games or other high end windows things, it’s fast enough for video and flash sure, but not 3d games. Boot camp handles this fine because it’s just running everything completely natively with full driver support, and is’t running two OS’s at once. For me at least, this is the only boon for running Windows on an Intel Mac, games and like 2 or 3 Windows apps I used before that I can no longer use now (I have a G4 mini, got it like 2 weeks before the Intel minis).
I think it’s quite simply this. Why push something where someone could boot up in windows and never boot back into OS X when they could push a product that they HAVE to boot up in OS X but can easily have access to NECESSARY software in XP but maintain the majority of their time in OS X. That way they stay in OS X and get used to it and start preferring it more and more.
If Apple is working with Parellis, I hope they can come up with a way to get full hardware accelleration out of it for games
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WHAT?!! Boot into Windows for god’s sake.
Boot Camp is a beta.
It is interesting to see Apple promote Parrallels software over there own however it does make sense for three reasons. The 1st being on the new macs I would rather run Windows as a seperate application then give it full access to the Hardware. For every machine I have worked on that is a PC, Windows is the only OS that I have ever known to make hardware fail. 2nd reason is games. It would be possible for Parrallels to create virtualization for just gaming which would be sweet. Running PC games from the Mac side wihtout Windows. 3rd reason. What happens when windows starts to blue screen??? On the mac side just erase the partition that Parrallels sets up and start over – No reformt necessary.
Didn’t Apple do the same thing with Rosetta? They found a company that had solved the problem, then licensed the technology. We could be seeing something similar with Parallels.
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That means on such well-designed hardware, that MacBook Pro runs even some Windows software faster than PCs themselves, according to third party results. (They’re able to get these results with beta software from the next version of Mac OS X, Leopard. Apple Computer does not sell or support Microsoft Windows.)
“MacBook Pro runs even some Windows software faster than PCs themselves”
Get with the program. The Mac IS a PC now. Why would anyone expect any difference in benchmarks?
I agree with the Beta comments.
I had a PC once with 2 OSs I can tell you that is pretty unpractical to have to reboot between OSs. It will get old pretty quickly. Go with Parallels. Most audio/video/photography apps are available natively for Mac Tell (except Adobe). If you want Windows to just play games I recommend that you apply the license fee towars a gaming console instead. For everything else Parallels would work ok.
May have already been said, but I don’t see Apple promoting a Beta, use at your own risk solution even if they developed in house, because the offer no support whatsoever for Bootcamp beyond installation.
I don’t believe for one second that Parallels began to “blindly” code a product that Apple might incorporate into Leopard and wipe them out. I know it’s happened before like Konfabulator but this is too huge.
I’m sure the guys and girls at Parallels know exactly what Apple has planned in the virtualization market.
The idea that Apple is working on virtualization for Leopard is just wishful thinking in the Apple Rumor Mill. The only way Leopard is going to have virtualization built-in is if Apple buys it from somebody like Parallels.
Tank – Apple did not rip-off Konfabulator. Dashboard has similarities with Konfabulator, but the technology is completely different. If anything, Konfabulator copied Apple’s DA’s from the original MacOS.
Is everyone forgetting that Bootcamp is beta software, and is unsupported by Apple?
They’re choosing someone else’s solution because it means that the other company gets to deal with the headache that is Windows users in need of tech support.
I’m sure Apple is working with Parallels–this doesn’t mean that Apple will include some way to run Windows in Mac OS X. Instead, it will mean that Apple will introduce appropriate APIs for software which uses virtualization to make sure that Mac OS X is appropriately friendly, knows how to do things like share networking, etc.
No, that doesn’t mean that you’ll go buy Leopard and be able to run Windows. It means you’ll be able to go buy Leopard, Parallels (or Virtual PC or Qemu, and Windows.
Parallels works GREAT! I’m running Ubuntu with it and switching between the 2 OSes full screen is as simple as hitting Alt-Enter!
Parallels blows away boot cramp!
I think Parallels is awesome. It’s very fast.
Noteworthy (but not spongeworthy):
Parallels handily beats and competes with MS Virtual PC (nee Connectix VPC).
I know this may be a little played out now that Parallels is the big thing on people’s minds, but I’m still partial to a Darwine situation, in which running Windows applications does not require the running of Windows itself.
This is what I hope Apple will include in TenFive. It is a much more elegant solution, and elegance is tied in with everything Apple does, so in my opinion, it still is a strong possibility.
Boot Camp is a beta, Parallels is not. Plus, Parallels makes it a little easier, being that you don’t have to restart to boot into another OS (however you pay the price in performance).
I’m sure Apple knows what they’re doing.
Noteworthy (but not spongeworthy):
But I think it is totally spongeworthy!
The Parallels concept of real-time dual, tri (or more!) booting is so much better than having to restart your Mactel every time as with Boot Camp.
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