[thelist] Switching back to Mac
robertm-list at rmdesign.com
robertm-list at rmdesign.com
Thu Oct 28 10:34:26 CDT 2004
On 27-Oct-04, at 12:43 PM, Robert Gormley wrote:
> Without precise knowledge of Virtual PC, but assuming it's much like
> VMware(?), I think it's a little unfair to extol the Mac as being
> amazingly
> easy to test multiple IE versions, when Windows can do it just as
> simply
> with VMware.
>
It's much easier to use a PC to view mulitple copies of IE. I primarily
use Macs but I have one test PC with an XP partition containing every
major version of IE. They are only a few Mb's each.
http://www.skyzyx.com/downloads/
These work fine to preview a webpage design -which is the whole point-
but will crash if you do much else. Here is the explanation of how it
is done.
http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/article.aspx?ID=795
I'm guessing these would also run under Virtual PC, saving a bunch of
disk space, but VPC runs like a tortoise. $500 spent on a low end PC is
a far better investment imo.
robert mcgonegal
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