I've been using Parallels Desktop on my Intel Macs for a while to run Windoze XP. I hardly ever run win, but I check sites with InternetExploder on it. I installed Chrome as well. Since Parallels came out VMWare released a desktop product for the Mac and it has gotten good reviews.
The noise about Win 7 made me want to look at it. Downloads of the beta are free! My Parallels version 3 doesn't install the Win7 properly. An upgrade to version 4 would be $50. So, I looked at VMWare Fusion, which offers a cross grade rebate; prove you own Parallels and they pay you $30. A digital download purchase of VMWare Fusion is $80, same as a new Parallels. A boxed edition from Amazon is $57. Strange days when a boxed version is cheaper than a download.
Then I discovered VirtualBox from Sun. It is free, open source and has gotten some good mentions. Installed Virtual Box and Win7 is one of the choices for automatic installation. How is Sun going to get me to buy a Sparc server by giving away a virtual machine program?
More: The free VirtualBox does not run the graphics card in the MacB Pro. ProBook it should be. Anyway, VB does 'generic vga' but it is a lot more than 'generic vga' used to be; 1280xwhatever, 32 bit graphics. But, it does not do a widescreen Macbook resolution. Runs this Win7 pretty darn good tho, for free.
24 January 2009
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