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Man this Mac is cool (mostly)

Fri, 12/22/2006 - 19:47 — charlie.collins

I am working on some Maven 2 stuff over the holidays, trying to upgrade some existing projects, understand the new MO, create/update some "Mojo" files and so on. Also I happen to have gotten a new MacBook lately, and just (yesterday) got it a decent amount of ram (the 512 it ships with is CRAP, not sure why they even bother shipping with that, it is a total waste, tangent) so I decided to install Parallels and then put Win2k and Kubuntu on it.

Talk about being able to test my builds and setups and so on, this is *really* damn nice. At the moment I have Windows, Linux and Mac running at the same time - and things are actually working at a fairly decent pace. (And I know VMWare has been handling this same setup for years, I just have only used it to run virtual Linux instances on Linux boxes, never really messed with multiple desktops.)

Props to Apple for this machine. (Though I also have quite a few gripes, I am not a simple fanboy, but with 2GB of memory and a decent external keyboard without the control key in the most retarded place possible, this thing is usable.)

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Fri, 12/22/2006 - 20:14 — atrox (not verified)

RE: Man this Mac is cool (mostly)

I guess a lot of this credit has to go to the folks at Parallels too (the new coherence mode is sweet, your apps run outside the virt machine, so they almost appear native to your host OS) - get this - my *sound card* is even working in Linux, on a laptop, in a virtual machine. Actually so far everything is working on each machine, you cannot share cdrom drives and some other peripherals, at the same time, but you can enable/disable them per machine, and the mouse flows in an out of the virt machines, nice.

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