April 19, 2006
Forget Boot Camp -- Viva Parallels!
Authored by Cyrus Farivar at 10:04 AM
Category | Software » Geekery
Rob Griffiths is at it again. This intrepid Macworld senior editor has managed to install four (yes, FOUR) operating systems running in virtualization on top of OS X. Why? All in the name of scientific research.
Compare the Mini XP Native and Mini XP Parallels entries, and you’ll see that the Parallels version is about 20 percent slower (but still miles ahead of Rosetta). That’s not bad at all, given the constraints of running within another operating system, and having less RAM available than it did when running natively.
But the real proof is in the actual usage, and there’s not really any way to describe it other than “more than fast enough.” I opened the same 74-page Word document that I used for earlier tests, and scrolling was lightning fast; I wasn’t able to see any lag between my typing and the screen display. Applications launch quickly, windows resize and move without delay, etc. In short, it’s basically just like using XP natively—with some exceptions which I’ll get to shortly.
I'll have an interview with Rob on Macworld Podcast #36, which will be released later this afternoon.
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