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Originally Posted by rmcpb
Unix, Mac and Windows all in one package. Almost worth upgrading the G4 for that  |
Amen to that brother
Funny but after the apple news, I read about this Virtualisation sytem just released which allows you to run Windows in a window on an intel mac/mactel in OS X - at near full speed, no emulation rubbish - fully native
http://www.parallels.com/en/
more on virtualisation
http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/vptech/
Wonder when MS will put out an OS and allow PC clones that will allow the running of two utterly different OS's native simultaneously (which mac did first years ago when OS 10 was first launched - ran classic OS 9 in a window - that ended with version 10.4 of course) pretty clever stuff!
I also just read some first impressions of the new dual boot on mactels and there are reports that XP and some benchmark programs are running faster on their mactels than on the fastest PC!! LOL
But then UNIX bsd should allow any platform to be run on it I am told, so its all no surprise I guess
The big winner is INTEL it would seem
and re the non standard hardware - that has changed a lot in recent years - an example: I remember when apple wouldnt allow you to use any ram but their own overpriced rebadged version (good quality tho), that was a scam! (apple aint perfect thats for sure) or you voided your warranty, things like that have changed years ago, you can use just about any cheap PC ram now I think, and especially in the mactels - all the ram sticks in my G5 dual 1.8 (powermac chips) are pc compatible, and run beautifully.
funny world aint it - I understand the triple core chip in the MS 360 X box is a powerPC CPU, modified but very similar to the G4 and G5 CPU's LOL
and the macs now have intel chips - bizzare!