Parallels Desktops

After yesterday's exercise I tried another, intslling "Parallels Desktops" on my MacBook. In a nutshell Parallels is actually a VM (virtualisation machine) software that emulate an environment that allowed other OS to run alongside OSX which can installed not just Windows (all windows from Win98, Me, 2000 etc.) but also BeOS, Linux and so on. I may not know the tech of it the details is here:

http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/

Again I took some shots and posted here to share :-)

Will try Windows 98 or Me later ideally I prefer Windows 2000 Professional to run along the OSX.

Boot Camp

Yesterday late evening I finally installed "Boot Camp Beta" on my MacBook, its been delayed due to the rush project for the last 2 week but then its finally done now. Posted here are some shots of the installation screen as well as the final Window XP UI on the Macbook.

I am using a Window XP Professional for this exercise. "Exercise" !!!! yes just exercise as I uninstalled everything after installing it just to satisfied myself that it really work but only slack is the version of Window XP I got hold on is rather "not complete" so some problems with the hardware config even after installing the Apple Driver CD created with Boot Camp.

Or if a bit of conspiracy theries here is Steve Jobs delibrately created Boot Camp to allowed Window user to experience first hand comparison of the smoothness of OS X and the clumsiness of Win XP :-) ............. nobody would know as its a beta version so no one can be so definite.