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Jewish World Review
June 30, 2006
/ 4 Tamuz, 5766
Windows on the Mac, Part II
By
Mark Kellner
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
About two months ago, I saluted what is now Parallels Desktop for Mac as a
stunning achievement of "virtualization," the ability to create a "virtual
[computing] machine," or "VM," inside another computer. The idea is to be
able to run another operating system alongside your computer's main one.
Herndon, Virginia-based Parallels has released the final version of the
Mac virtualization software, and if you have an Intel-based Mac, and a
need to run just about any version of Microsoft Windows, your choice is
clear: either pay $49.95 now for the program, or pay $79.95 after July 15.
There's just no better way - so far - to run Windows (or Linux) on one of
the newest Macs.
The software's cost won't be all that you need to spend, however. You'll
want to max out the RAM on whatever Mac you're using; even 1 Gbyte is a
bit "close" for my liking; to push things to the max, you'll want to have
as much memory as your Mac can handle.
And you'll have to buy a copy of Windows, if you don't have one already.
Current versions of Windows run around $200, as noted here before.
Why go through all this? There are certain applications that, for now, are
only available on Windows. If studying the Bible is your thing, for
example, you may want to use the Logos Bible Systems package, or the
scholarly oriented BibleWorks, and neither are available in Mac versions
at the present time. If you want to design and print your own checks,
programs such as VersaCheck are, again, Windows-only, without Mac "clones"
available.
In short, even the most Mac-happy "switchers" as converts from Windows are
called may have one or two programs they can't yet live without. Parallels
Desktop lets things co-exist quite nicely.
Unlike earlier "emulation" programs such as Virtual PC, ironically now
owned by Microsoft Corp., Parallels Desktop for Mac, runs faster and
better thanks to the "Intel inside" nature of the new Macs. (Microsoft
hasn't announced a firm release date for an Intel-compatible version of
Virtual PC yet.) It will very much depend on available memory, but
Parallels Desktop lets Windows run quite nicely; you feel as if you can do
some actual computing work with the "guest" operating system.
Installation and setup are pretty easy. It seems, as noted before, like
alchemy of some sort, but Windows XP installs pretty quickly under the
program and it runs quite well. Unlike the "Beta" test versions, you can
invoke a "full screen" view of Windows on the Mac, however much cognitive
dissonance may result from seeing a standard Microsoft desktop full-size
above the Apple MacBook's name.
There is one hiccup right now, which Parallels spokesman Ben Rudolph
blames on the architecture of Microsoft's Mac Office applications suite.
If you highlight and "copy" an item in Windows, Office applications such
as Word for Mac won't recognize that something is on the digital
"clipboard." I solved this by pasting into an open TextEdit
document, but admittedly that's a rough solution. One hopes the software
parties involved will resolve the impasse shortly, since doing so will
make Parallels Desktop a truly wonderful application.
However, even with this issue, running Windows in parallel with the Mac OS
still strikes me as a better solution than Apple's "BootCamp," well
performing as that application may be. BootCamp allows you to book
an Intel-based Mac with either the Mac or Windows OS. Cutting-and-pasting
between the two isn't easily possible; you'd have to save a file in one OS
and transfer the file to the "other side." Not a lot of fun, in my
opinion.
Parallels Desktop for Mac, by contrast, is as close to fun as a VM can
aspire. Check it out at www.parallels.com; if you need it, you'll
appreciate it.
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