Comments on: Would Apple Buy Parallels?

By: Bernie

Bernie — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:28:54 +0000

Phil, can you tell me more about Boot Camp and Labview, does it work well and as you would hope? I am not so concerned about instrument drivers just development of .exe for running in the LV runtime engine on other windows PCs

Thanks

By: phil

phil — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:52:44 +0000

Once again, let’s say it all together, Boot Camp is NOT LAME! If you need full hardware compatibilty for some software Boot Camp can’t be beat. I use a Windows version of National Instruments program called LabView. There is an OS X version of LabView, but at least at this point you cannot take advantage of a lot of high speed hardware in OS X. For the time being Boot Camp works just swell. At this point Parallels cannot provide the hardware access reqiured, although the improved USB 2.0 support in the latest Parallels beta is impressive.

After I finish my LabView work, I can take a shower and return to the comforts of OS X.

By: www.mac-shop.co.uk

www.mac-shop.co.uk — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:58:52 +0000

Virtulisation is the future. With processor speeds increasing at the current rate, and the price of memory coming down, we have to do something with all that power.

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:13:39 +0000

Boot Camp is NOT lame. Apple are just not mentioning it in their main marketing as its still beta and they obviously dont really want to promote it to everyone.

I dont think Apple will buy Parallels, it doesnt make sense.

By: Chris Howard

Chris Howard — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:01:25 +0000

GaryP, in answer to your question, Boot Camp is not lame. Generally speaking, Boot Camp means you can boot your Intel Mac into Windows. What is lame about that? People are only saying it’s lame because Parallels can run Windows inside OS X. But on that premise, any Windows PC is lame.

Lame usually implies limited or under powered. In fact, it is Parallels that is limited, therefore it must be lame.

Boot Camp is excellent if you need the full power of your Mac for running Windows applications. Boot Camp gives you a 100% Windows compatible PC. Parallels is still not 100% compatible – eg no 3D graphics; not all Apple hardware supported; no support for disc burning etc.

By: MisterKen

MisterKen — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:07:16 +0000

I saw Paralells sell a mac this weekend at the Apple store. They guy just said ‘wrap it up’ after the rep showed him it could be done.

As a system selling tool, its faaaaaar better than BootCamp. Why not purchase the company and place it on every Mac sold? As a marketing person myself, I don’t think it deludes the message but instead provides a clear lighted path for those who want/need to keep some Windows apps. They get some familiarity and a taste of the good life OS X offers. No one looses. Well, someone in Redmond does…

Apple has more cash in the bank than most companies in America. Companies, by and large, do not hoard money for no reason. I expect a spending spree (ala Google) to start sometime real soon.

By: Todd Baur

Todd Baur — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:54:06 +0000

Secondly, it has nothing to do with Mac OS X and iLife marketing plans. In fact, running Windows on these Macs is a bait-and-switch tactic. A genius one that will work for a lot of people. Not only can you run Windows and all your old apps on the Mac, you have a few choices about doing it.

What I think would be the icing is for Parallels’ imaging tool to become a Windows app that will turn ANY PC into a VM so all ones stuff on the old computer is on the Mac as if nothing happened. If Windows wasn’t such a mess I would think this would be a possibility. I wouldn’t wish that on any programmer, even a C++ GUI expert.

By: weldon

weldon — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:54:59 +0000

I think it would be mistake to stifle the competition between VMware and Parallels. The market will benefit from Apple NOT providing a virtualization solution at this time. If they bought Parallels, I would expect VMware to throw in the towel. They compete effectively with Microsoft on the PC side because they had a head start. I wouldn’t expect them to do the same for the Mac market.

By: Richard Neal

Richard Neal — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:49:22 +0000

Apple themselves seem to think Boot Camp is pretty lame. Look at this Get a Mac ad, read the fine print near the end, and then make your opinion. I don't think, however, that Apple will buy Parallels, because if you have a problem with an Apple application, Apple's going to have to help, and a lot of bad things are going to happen. Right now, Apple basically doesn't have to support people running Windows, because it's just, well, Windows.

By: GaryP

GaryP — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:01:59 +0000

Anything behind the “Boot Camp is lame” comment?

My wife is in the process of setting up Windows XP on her new MacBook Pro and I’m wondering where the lameness will come in. If it’s the completely seperate environment, then maybe there’s a point (although I’d not want the OS X files visible to XP anyway), but I’d like to understand the reasoning here.

Unsupported statements like that just scream “challenge me!”