Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/30

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Subject: [Leica] Re:OT: Using Parallels on Mac?
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)
Date: Wed Apr 30 19:30:09 2008
References: <022701c8aafd$41f87970$0302a8c0@MacPhisto><D2CC0534-6D65-4A13-9723-6CD2356D19DF@aotera.org><02b601c8ab18$ab1c9100$0302a8c0@MacPhisto> <20080501015757.GB18868@panix.com>
 
Now I'm confused, you guys are running Boot Camp+Parallels or VMWare?

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rei Shinozuka" 
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: OT: Using Parallels on Mac?


> the good thing is you can download them and run both
> as trials and see how they actually run.
> 
> i made a boot camp partition  and installed XP,
> and the new versions of parallels and vmware both
> can boot off the partition.  the nice thing is you don't need
> to install windows 3 times.  
> 
> i was trying out one of
> those directx PC games and neither emulator worked 
> quite successfully, but parallels was much better at those
> parts that did work.  you had to turn on experimental directx9
> support on the emulators.   only under bootcamp were you 
> actually able to play the game.  
> 
> -rei
> 
> On Apr30 17:19, Christopher Williams wrote:
>> Thanks guys. Apple's website has rave user reviews on VMWare.
>> 
>> Chris
Replies: Reply from clive.moss at gmail.com (Clive Moss) ([Leica] Re:OT: Using Parallels on Mac?)
 In reply to: Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams) ([Leica] OT: Using Parallels on Mac?)
Message from scheng at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng) ([Leica] OT: Using Parallels on Mac?)
Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams) ([Leica] Re: OT: Using Parallels on Mac?)
Message from shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka) ([Leica] Re: OT: Using Parallels on Mac?)