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“Besides having the ability to run Windows XP and 7 on an iPad, they’re also pretty proud of the Google ChromeOS performance on iPad, which I have to say was pretty entertaining,” Weintraub reports. “If you need to run desktop OSes on the road, but want to leave the computer at home, this free iOS (works on iPhone and iPod touch too) app from Parallels is a pretty slick.”
Full article, with video, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
Wha’!? Mmmm, free; might have potential, but, how will one accomplish mouse-based functions? Have to try this thing if only to impress ‘Doze suffering friends.
I’m sure one would need a touch pen to access the finer OS UI details a pointer provides.
Now the trick is to get OS X running under Parallels on a iPad and finally give us the OS X tablet we all REALLY wanted.
iOS just makes me sick.
I would like a iPad version of my Apple Remote Desktop. Not Windows. I use Mac OS X. And while on vacation or reaching in from home, this would be great!
@Bizzarro
OS X on an iPad isn’t going to happen. Puke in a bucket and get over it. Or grab a Windows 7 tablet.
Hold on a minute. All the talk is about Apple’s greatness in it’s iOS for small devices and how Windows and Android are going to struggle to make a tablet that runs their OS. Now all of a sudden the iPad can run Winows 7 through Parallels with no one really batting an eyelid. What’s going on? Does this mean that yes, they will be able to run efficient Tablets? Confused.
I think the article has it wrong. What the iOS app does is allow you to view a Parallels virtual session running on your desktop Mac. So you need a connection back to your Mac, and Parallels 6 installed on that desktop.
You don’t get something for nothing
@ Bizarro RE:
“Now the trick is to get OS X running under Parallels on a iPad and finally give us the OS X tablet we all REALLY wanted.”
Thanks for the stupid post of the week! (i.e. get a MacBook)
@TheMacAdvocate
“OS X on an iPad isn’t going to happen”
By the time iPads get dual cores, it would be rather common and likely even endorsed or encouraged by Apple.
After all it’s still their hardware and Apple has control through the App Store to validate the OS X copy is a paid version.
In fact I predict a “Bootcamp” of sorts for the iPad.
iOS is just too limited, cumbersome and corny.
I totally agree with Bizzarro.
VMware Fusion allows remote VNC access for the virtual machines, and there are plenty of VNC apps available for iOS. What’s the value-add for a Parallels-specific remote app?
Bizarro,
You got it backwards. OSX is going away, and iOS is taking its place. If you haven’t noticed, iOS has been steadily gaining features (copy/paste, folders, printing), and is rapidly approaching a feature set no different than a desktop OS.
There are now more iOS applications than there are Mac OS X applications (I know, I know, quantity does NOT equal quality; still…). There are tens of thousands of active developers for iOS. The OS has been gaining larger displays and therefore giving developers much more serious space to work with.
Apple is now on a mission to KILL the mouse (i.e. pointing device, be it mouse, trackpad, trackball, that little clitoris-looking button on Lenovo, etc). As necessary as it was thirty years ago, it is time for it to go to the museum and be replaced with our fingers (and, for the few who need much better precision, styluses).
You should mentally prepare yourselves for a transition from the old-fashioned display-keyboard-mouse concept to a unified, intuitive, multi-touch display.
@Bizzarro
Will this do?
http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=modbook
@Jersey_Trader
There are already numerous VNC clients for iPhone and iPad that allow you to remote into your Mac OS X machine (or any other VNC server – Solaris, Linux, etc)
I just got a Griffin rubber cover for my iPad. Now it’s an all encompassing, rugged, durable beast.
I love my iPad
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@Predrag
You should mentally prepare yourselves for a transition from the old-fashioned display-keyboard-mouse concept to a unified, intuitive, multi-touch display…”
Why should I do that when a OS X desktop UI / iOS UI hybrid is coming to new dual core iPads?
The keyboard stand is getting Ethernet and USB ports too.
The MacBook is toast.
@Wha…Try LogMeIn. In fact, I don’t see what the Parallels iPad app offers that LogMeIn does not.
There was a remote access iApp for the last version of Parallels Desktop also. Requires the guest OS be running on the host machine. Was never quite clear what advantage this had over just plain old VNC, but I assume there was some sort of optimization. I believe that RDP would be the protocol instead of VNC, so perhaps it’s snappier (sending instructions instead of pixels). Also probably some UI optimizations. Anyone actually use the last version?
Bizzarro,
I think you got it wrong. There is no chance OS X is going to make its way to the iPad, or any other future multi-touch device. As I said, it will be the other way around, with OS X dying and being replaced with iOS on future Macs.
You need to watch for subtle clues from Apple, and you’ll clearly see what is going on. Jobs has declared the iPad his greatest lifetime achievement. The new Magic Mouse is all touch, no buttons. All current portable Macs have multi-touch trackpads with some basic gestures borrowed from iOS. Apple is slowly training all of their customers to the set of multi-touch gestures for future use on larger iOS devices.
It is just a matter of time when Apple will simply discontinue Mac OS X as an option on Macs and push everyone in the direction of iOS. By then, I’m sure we’ll already have Adobe CS, MS Office, Apple’s own pro apps ported to the iOS, with its new GUI paradigm and multi-touch control. It will be much like the move from System 9 (Classic) to OS X. Many will be kicking and screaming, but it will happen nonetheless.
As much as I hate to, I feelnI have to agree with Predrag. It does look like the cues coming out of Cupertino all point to iOS supplanting OSX sometime in the future instead of the other way around. Personally I feel like the iOS platform is just too lightweight to be considered a full OS. It serves it’s purpose dutifully, however beyond that it’s just too limited.
I like my desktop environment and my freedom to choose how to screw it up as I see fit. I do not like how all apps have to be installed from the app store in iOS devices. I prefer the option of being able to install from different locations and media and to run applications that I may see value in which Cupertino may not.
I’ve seen my fair share of crashes on Mac and iOS devices to know that Flash is not the only culprit. If that was the case my iPad should never freeze or crash yet it does it more times than I’d like. No help from Apple Store since it’s not a known problem even though there are plenty of message boards and blogs about the wifi connectivity issues and crashes being experienced by iPad users.
Late 2006/ early 2007 intel macs also suffer from system crashes not associated by
outside programs but more to a internal design flaw which Apple will not admit to. Many people whose Applecare has just expired are experiencing machine ending problems which Apple refuses to acknowledge. 3 years for a system to completely burn out? Really?
Without the third party software available some more of these people would be left
out in the cold. With iOS the possibility of this software being rejected exists and is real. In the OSX environment a developer only needs to write the software without having to worry about it getting denied by a what can seems at times, a draconian approval process.
Yes there is a paradigm shift afoot. The iPad is a disruptive device that is showing everyone how computing in the 21st century is going to look like. Supported by already popular devices like the iPod and iPhone and the general goodwill they are bringing Apple is in the catbird seat of this next computer revolution, and iOS is going to be leading the way.
Some people are going to be dragged kicking and screaming as in the past, yet the change will come. Apple will see to it. iOS will get it’s necessary upgrades (i.e. 4.2 and on) to more reflect the needs of desktop users so OSX can make it’s graceful exit from the computing world. I may like Bizarro’s world but Predrag seems to have a better handle on the one we currently live in.
@Predrag
You are so right. At the moment it seems strange, because OS X is a good system, but to be honest, it’s too complex, at some places bloated.
I’ve gone through this, loved my classic mac OS. But it was just time to change, we will get over it. iOS is much cleaner.
> that little clitoris-looking button on Lenovo < -Predrag
You mean you managed to find it !?