Parallels Desktop for OS X Reviewed

Parallels Desktop for OS X Reviewed 300

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday July 10, 2006 @03:46PM from the virtualization-hot-emulation-not dept.

phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica has put up a great review of the first full release of Parallels' virtualization software for OS X, Parallels Desktop 1.0. From the article: 'Move over emulation, virtualization is in and it's hotter than two Jessica Albas wresting the devil himself in a pit of molten steel. It's no contest, virtualization has it all: multiple operating systems running on the same machine at nearly the full speed of the host's processor with each system seamlessly networking with the next. Add to that the fact that it's cheaper than getting a new machine and you have the guaranteed latest craze. Not even the Hula Hoop can stop this one.'"

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Re:Where are the comments? (Score:5, Funny)

by ZachPruckowski ( 918562 ) writes: <zachary.pruckowski@gmail.com> on Monday July 10, 2006 @03:50PM (#15693273)

Well, maybe people are reading the full arti...oh, right, Slashdot. Never mind.

"Hotter than two Jessica Albas wrestling" (Score:5, Funny)

by Dystopian Rebel ( 714995 ) writes: on Monday July 10, 2006 @03:50PM (#15693274) Journal

So Taco, when did Harry Knowles join the editorial staff?

Has it all? (Score:5, Funny)

by chabotc ( 22496 ) writes: <chabotc AT gmail DOT com> on Monday July 10, 2006 @03:52PM (#15693295) Homepage

"..and it's hotter than two Jessica Albas wresting the devil himself in a pit of molten steel. It's no contest, virtualization has it all.."

Umm i hate to be the one pointing this out, but i for one can think of some very hot things about Jessica Albas that virtualization doesn't have.

Really.. [google.com], can't compare [google.com]

Re:Wake me up when ... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 10, 2006 @03:58PM (#15693332)

wake me up when someone runs windows seamlessly on a stock PC.

Re:"Hotter than two Jessica Albas wrestling" (Score:5, Funny)

by hackstraw ( 262471 ) * writes: on Monday July 10, 2006 @04:03PM (#15693371)

So Taco, when did Harry Knowles join the editorial staff?

When did slashdot get an editorial staff?

tagged as "devilwrestling" (Score:5, Funny)

by bunions ( 970377 ) writes: on Monday July 10, 2006 @04:10PM (#15693416)

this is exactly what the tagging system is here for, folks. Two weeks from now when you wonder "what was that thing? About wrestling? I think it was with the devil? Or maybe devils?" slashdot tagging beta will be there to bail you out.

Re:Different from VMWare? (Score:3, Funny)

by PCM2 ( 4486 ) writes: on Monday July 10, 2006 @04:13PM (#15693434) Homepage

How is Parallels different from VMWare Workstation?

It uses a different codebase and it runs on a Mac? Just guessing.

Re:Has it all? (Score:3, Funny)

by mcrbids ( 148650 ) writes: on Monday July 10, 2006 @04:32PM (#15693584) Journal

Umm i hate to be the one pointing this out, but i for one can think of some very hot things about Jessica Albas that virtualization doesn't have.

You're not much of a geek, are you? Turn in your geek card!

Virtualization is the ultimate hotness (Score:5, Funny)

by SuperKendall ( 25149 ) writes: on Monday July 10, 2006 @04:42PM (#15693664)

Sorry, but by definition nothing can be hotter than virtualization as any powerful enough virtualization system can allow you to have N simultaneous copies of the thing you are claiming is hotter.

Thus a proper virtualization system would allow you to have two simultaneous Jessica Albas, which I think was being hinted at in the "wrestling the devil" portion of the post. The devil I guess was a methaphor for memory consumption, while the molten steel plainly referred to the processor load and resulting core temperatures.

Re:Has it all? (Score:2, Funny)

by maximthemagnificent ( 847709 ) writes: on Monday July 10, 2006 @05:15PM (#15693881)

Uh, I don't think the Jessica Albas would look very hot for long in a pit of molten steel.

Maxim

Re:Has it all? (Score:4, Funny)

by Rakshasa Taisab ( 244699 ) writes: on Monday July 10, 2006 @05:44PM (#15694062) Homepage

She isn't as hot as my macbook pro will be while running School Days under win32 and debugging my BT client in Valgrind on linux.

Re:Parallels - the only time my Mac ever crashed (Score:3, Funny)

by anaesthetica ( 596507 ) writes: on Monday July 10, 2006 @06:22PM (#15694301) Homepage Journal

Surfing the web: doable on a PC
Listening to iTunes: doable on a PC
Installing Opera browser: doable on a PC
Installing Windows: doable on a PC

Being extremely smug about it all? Mac only.
That said, here comes my Mac zealot rejoinder. It's not about what grandparent was doing, it's about what grandparent wasn't doing:
Cleaning out spyware: only on a PC
Cleaning out viruses: only on a PC
Deleting malicious reg keys: only on a PC
Reinstalling Windows (again): only on a PC
Rebooting from a BSOD: only on a PC
Writing apologist posts on /.: platform free!

Re:In the end, I went with Boot Camp (Score:3, Funny)

by cygnus ( 17101 ) writes: on Monday July 10, 2006 @07:44PM (#15694728) Homepage

Waving my hand over my Macbook (accomplished with Shadowbook + Virtuedesktops), caused my screen to rotate into either Windows XP or OS X at will.

do you say "This is not the OS I'm looking for" when you do it? :)

Re:I have parallels running (Score:3, Funny)

by Ohreally_factor ( 593551 ) writes: on Monday July 10, 2006 @11:32PM (#15695714) Journal

If he did pay for it, he wouldn't be a filching freeloader, nor a pilfering parasite, nor a larcenous leech.

Re:Virtualization is the ultimate hotness (Score:2, Funny)

by wilec ( 606904 ) writes: on Tuesday July 11, 2006 @08:24PM (#15702542)

I suspect two simultaneous Jessica Albas would send my core temperature critical resulting in system failure. But what a way to crash....

Matthew

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Re:Where are the comments? (Score:5, Funny)

"Hotter than two Jessica Albas wrestling" (Score:5, Funny)

Has it all? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Wake me up when ... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:"Hotter than two Jessica Albas wrestling" (Score:5, Funny)

tagged as "devilwrestling" (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Different from VMWare? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Has it all? (Score:3, Funny)

Virtualization is the ultimate hotness (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Has it all? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Has it all? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Parallels - the only time my Mac ever crashed (Score:3, Funny)

Re:In the end, I went with Boot Camp (Score:3, Funny)

Re:I have parallels running (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Virtualization is the ultimate hotness (Score:2, Funny)

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