I have been using boot camp with OSX for some time now. I betaed it during the run up to the current OXS. I thought that was a cool product, but the problem was that I couldn’t use my tools that I had in windows while OSX was running. I bought Parallels at about version 2 or a little bit earlier. I thought it was good then, but I was not prepared for it now
Parallels is a virtualization product that allows you to run more than one operating system from inside a host operating system. For all intents and purposes you have two OSes running at the same time. This means that you can get the best of all worlds.
Part of my services is that I am a MS Office guru/instructor. That’s Office as in windows Office. When i made the switch to Mac, I knew that I was still going to need a windows machine for supporting the MS Office family of products for my customer base. Bootcamp did that for me, but I thought it would be cool to have access to a windows installation from the native OSX. Parallels did that for me. It ran Ms Office just fine, though at first it ran things in it’s own window, and Moving things between environment was not as seamless, as I would like. With version 4.0 of Parallels the Coherence aspect of Parallels is astonishing. It actually is like running windows products directly in Mac OSX. This has let me keep my skills up and even has a side effect of allowing me to use my laptop for demos of the windows products.
I did not keep up with my Parallels purchases because there was a quick interregnum where I went back ot the PC. When Mac went Intel, and Bootcamp promised windows on apple hardware, I returned. I played with Parallels at that point, but bootcamp was a whole lot easier to understand than virtualization. When I saw version 4 of Parallels I realized that at last I could have windows software on my OSX partition.
For those of my customers who are retail training centers, you might want to considered purchasing mac minis. You probably have usb keyboards and mice, and even decent LCD screens. Those are things that you can plug into the mac mini to have a computer. Now you just need a copy of parallels and a full version of a windows software to have the best of both worlds. Just don’t expect to have a screaming game machine.
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