Likely because the folks who make Parallels paid Apple a pile of cash to promote their product. It's a shame because you can bet they now can't talk about Oracle's Virtual Box. Not money to be made there.
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Likely because the folks who make Parallels paid Apple a pile of cash to promote their product. It's a shame because you can bet they now can't talk about Oracle's Virtual Box. Not money to be made there.
While I can understand leaving out the Server version from the list, the NT series, Windows 2000 included has always been way above Windows 9x.
80's only sucked if you hated good music and movies and liked style and real haircuts.........
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Unless you've been using it sometime in the last 10 years, I'm more impressed by the fact that you remember it to such a level of detail. You must have been truly traumatised to have such vivid memories.
Can you imagine Boot Camp at the Apple Store?
*User reboots machine into Windows, leaves*
*Another user comes to the machine, "Oh, just Windows? I think I kinda like the pink Sony one in the store next door," leaves*
or
"Oh you want to run Windows? Let me show you... we need to reboot this machine for you...
... just a second...
sorry, it's starting up in Windows now..."
"Nevermind, thanks."
In my opinion, shouldn't Apple be developing Mac solutions for businesses rather than going into the Windows world?
I was stuck with it on my PC well into 2004. Of course, I've used XP, Vista, and 7 plenty, but not on my home computer.
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been using mac at home and at work since tiger and the bathroom coloured flat intel imac came out. never had any issues at getting stuff done while living without windows. as i use a very limited amount of programs, life was easy.
i've been always wondering why folks run word/excel/powerpoint on mac, when there is pages/numbers/keynote. why pay helluva lot money for those ****** outdated apps from microsoft, when i can have them almost free.
yes, there are a lot of applications that are only available for windows, and yes
it's not good at all. but the problem is not really the lack of good apps for mac, rather than the ignorant IT folks educated imprisoned in microsoft world. and they are really afraid, that if anything changes, they won't be that important anymore. cuz right now they are the total rulers of time and space, as they sit at the exchange management console.
you all could run to them screaming, hey, buddy, there is a whole other world out there...
it's kind of strange, that i can get stuff done for a mid sized business by purchasing the server edition of OS-X for nifty $20: collaboration, backup, messaging, emails, web service, centralized user management. whatever.
in the windows worlds i'd have to shovel out thousands of dollars to get the same things done by puchasing windows 2xxx server, exchange server, licenses for exchange, for active directory.
it's actually so cheap, that some guys don't even bother to do the same with some open source unixes for free.
even on the client devices, i've work with say 50 colleagues, and most of them uses PCs running windows. they are always upset, because their shiny new core i5 laptops with 8 gigs of ram is booting for minutes, antivirus software eats away half of the cpu, and as they resize one window by dragging it's edge, the magic hourglass pops up, and they have to wait 4-6 seconds. on a newly installed lenovo laptop.
the windows folder gets thicker and thicker, boot time increases as days go by. and this is not purely the fault of the operating system, it's the applications, the drivers. everybody creates ****** drivers that have some unimportant resident part, which constantly buggs the user: intel graphics assistant, nvidia helper, realtek audio 3d control panel. is it really necessary for an audio driver to be 160MB? or those HP printer drivers, come on, the recent all in ones doesn't even go under half GIG!
there is no consistent development environment for windows. there are some, yeah, but there's no standard like it is with xcode. you create an app with 3 windows, and the poor user has to download dotnet4x-gamma-delta-xi, which is just 250megs, but upon installing it unpacks itself to the ROOT directory(!) then it starts setup (dot.msi) which then unpacks the real .cab .dat files, and then it actually installs itself to somewhere deep in the windows directory, and of course a copy to some hidden place.
and in most cases on a thin SSD 2-3 Gig free space is not enough to finish this magical operation.
so without any kind of good reason, i'd never put something like this on any of my machines, it does not matter which sw is used, parallels or vmware. if i ever decide to ruin my gear, then it should be virtualbox, because that way i don't have to pay for my suffering.
Ouch!!!
The truth hurt! Why would you go and dig up these painful truth that is part of a windows user experience? ;-)
But I think you missed another bag of hurt, the almighty "registry".
You missed a part. "I'll just reboot it into Mac OS X... Any minute now... Maybe it's - NO! 127 Windows updates!" Based on a true experience.
Why would you be forced to shut down your VM's? Why not suspend (pause) them and then reactivate them once the Mac reboots -- that is if you are running Parallels. That sounds like far lower maintenance to me than having multiple, physical machines eating up valuable office space.
IT departments can still have control if correctly implemented. We control our macs with a Mac Server, and Group Policy add ins to our directory, and IPAM/Radius Services.
As an IT professional, for our Windows 2012 infrastructure to use the Management Interfaces and remote powershell scripting you have to use Windows 8, so there is no choice really.
I have an MBP, because it is my platform of choice, and i like OS X and am the Mac Guy for our School but i still run a VMware Fusion copy of Windows 7, 8, and 2012.
LOL... another 'people use Macs as a status symbol' comment.
Well, there are a bunch of reasons. First, maybe they want decent hardware. Second, by using virtualization, they can use the Mac OS for most of their work, while still being able to run particular Windows-only apps the company might be using. Or, they can run some particular version of IE that the IT-clowns designed their 'web' apps around. Third, they can create a Windows install that can get mucked up and restored in just minutes while still having their Mac available to them. Fourth, one can run multiple versions of multiple OSs for testing purposes.
Because Boot Camp is a totally different animal than virtualization. If you run Parallels, you STILL run OSX... Windows (or Windows apps) are just a window or app layer you can use ALONGSIDE your other work on OSX.
I'd (if Apple) certainly not be promoting getting rid of OSX in favor of Windows on my machines. The whole idea is that you can use a superior machine and OS, while still being able to run some legacy app the company uses while waiting for Windows' demise.
That's definitely true in healthcare IT. We run hundreds of applications, some of which are only just now becoming Win 7 compatible or being replaced by apps that are. I use VMware to run a few of them on my Macs, so I still haven't started to use Win 7. BTW, Fusion has been pretty much trouble-free for me. I used Parallels a few years ago, but switched to VMware after a bad upgrade experience.
I use ACAD, Revit & 3d Max regularly, also MS Access 2010, but not on virtualization. You cannot afford to lose any of RAM on host OS (OSX).
Therefore on my early 2011 MBP 17" (1920x1200) there is SSD (however I can't regret my cheepness not to buy 512 GB instead of 256, because meager 128 GB per OS is insufficient, let's say that OSX is about 10 GB, where W7U64 is about 30 GB, with Office 2010, Building Suite and Adobe CSX6 alltogether almost 80 GB). 8 GB RAM is fine, but it is a pity that in this laptop you can't put 16GB... Transition time (Bootcamp) between OSX and W7U64 is about 60 secs. Last year I compared in one Apple Retail Store my laptop and rMBP 15", of course only in OSX because they didn't posess any Win, and surprisingly my laptop did well. Screen appearance in MacOffice 2011 was already the same. Personally I don't like glass screens so I'm maybe a little nonobjective... Also I can say that ACAD for Mac is a way under its current Win counterpart, although I like ACAD for Mac because it resembles in appearance on old DOS ACADs...
However, Sandy Bridge hardware (and I think Haswell also) is not tuned to Win as it is to OSX so when working in Win there is much more heat dissipation (and battery consumption), especially in modelling and rendering. So the advice would be, for smaller tasks and where is no electricity plug, try to use ACAD for Mac
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That's true. However, most IT department don't even bother to think about it. They just have their hands full with Windows's. They don't care the minority macs enough to do it. So, most of the time macs users enjoy their freedom.
I would second this... we got an email at work a couple of months ago saying that a small computer firm is going to handle all maintenance, backup, and problem solving that may arise on our computers. Well being the graphics guy in the office, I have a MBP and they have no clue what to do with it, and don't touch it! Which is nice, because I personally don't want them loading my personal files onto their server for "backup."
Having used a very capable Win7 machine for a year, and switching to a Mac for my main business work, I can say that my workflow has become much more efficient on the Mac.
Because they want to get users using OS X. They only want to push Windows so far as they have to in order to satisfy the need for running legacy apps.
I agree, Apple should try and push for more business software. However, for those businesses that still require PC apps, they can virtualize those apps and use the Mac for everything else.
If I'm not mistaken, Autodesk will provide support for applications running under Parallels on a Mac. Very enlightened if true.
While free, VB sucks, at least in terms of convenience. Sure it runs Windows on the Mac desktop but you can't share files by way of drag n drop. There's a reason why paying for virtualization software is necessary.