Stefan Tilkov's Random Stuff

Just Boot Windows

As many pundits and members of the Mac community feared, Apple’s decision to allow dual booting of Macs into Windows has caused all OS X developers to abandon the platform. Across the board, developers are telling those who find the OS X environment infinitely more appealing: “Just boot into Windows.”

As was to be expected. My favorite is this comment.

On a related note, Parallels works like a charm — I know have XP with WebSphere and RAD 6 running in one VM, Lotus Domino Designer, Admin and Client in another. Next up: Visual Studio in a third one.

Comments

On April 18, 2006 2:52 PM, Hendrik Schreiber said:

So I suppose speed is not an issue with Parallels?

On April 18, 2006 3:28 PM, Stefan Tilkov said:

I haven’t run any benchmarks, but it feels fast enough for me. At the moment, it does not run in fullscreen mode — if VMware’s behavior under Windows is any indication, Parallels will also run much faster once they have this working.