[thelist] Web Development Machine

[Stephen]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 11:00:15AM -0500 or thereabouts, Andrew Kamm wrote:
> > 
> > I believe there is software for the Mac OS that allows you to run windows
> > within the Mac OS. I don't know how good it is or if it will allow you to run
> > VS 2005 IIS 6 etc, but that would be the way to go.
> 
> Virtual PC is the one that I know of to run Windows on a Mac (while actually
> in OSX).... it's pitiful. I've used in on an iMac G5 with 1250mb ram. As an
> example, if you were to copy and paste a URL into the address bar, you
> literally watch it spell out that URL one letter at a time (a little less
> then a second each).

Actually if one is serious about this, VMWare is the way to go. I
don't know if Cupertino supports it yet, but VPC being an emulation
layer is going to be slower than VMWare, which runs as a virtual
machine.

You may want to peruse this discussion;
<http://www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=381224>

Apparently reading the thread there is a company that has a competing
virtual machine,
<http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/>and by a report 
it's bloody fast.

Hope this helps.
-- 
Regards
Stephen
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