Feb15
Why I love my Computer
As a web professional, being able to do this on one computer with very little trouble makes me happy to own my Intel Mac.
Of course, this is all down to a great virtualization program called Parallels Desktop that lets you run any windows application within your Mac OS X desktop.
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Out of curiosity, are you running Parallels build 1970 or one of the new release candidates? Also, do you have 2 XP virtual machines running for IE6 and IE7 or are you running a standalone version of one of the browsers?
I’ve got 2 XP virtual machines set up so I can run the native versions of IE6 and IE7, but running both at the same time really slows down my system (2.33 Ghz Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro). I’m still on Parallels build 1970 as the betas and release candidates have been too buggy for me – though RC3 seems to be better.
Dang, it’s time for me to upgrade!
Scott, I’m using release candidate 2 right now, so it has full “coherence” support allowing me to achieve the above effect.
I have one virtual machine running with a full version of IE7 installed. The IE6 you see is the standalone version, not ideal, but it works to some degree. My biggest issue is conditional comments, which tend not to work with standalone versions.
Wow, now I have some good reasons to get a macbook, I’ve always wanted to try “that”.
Btw, doesn’t you mac complains to have all those browsers at the same time? Do you need extra RAM?
I’m not sure how the Parallels Desktop works, but give Multiple IE [1] a try. It works for me in my windows box.
Cheers,
[1] http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
Hey Andy,
Where did you get your standalone version of IE 6?
Neojp,
Once you get a Mac you’ll see how sweet they run. I have Parallels, 4 Browsers, Word, Dreamweaver, Adium, Bittorrent, and Flash all open and running, using all of them at the same time. No problems at all and nothing is slow.
You can actually runs all the IE versions on Windows using a specific prog.
Look at this tool:
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
I use it and it’s quite helpfull.
Why I love My computer.
Digital video and Desktop Search make it more fun than work.
The search allows me to keep all my Video, Music, Pics and text
in 1 Folder (and a few sub folders) and that’s all I need to
worry about. I back that up and if I lose my computer. No matter.
All my emails and all my web site url favorites are there also.
If I get a virus I just reinstall the OS and load my data. My
internet stuff and a few other applications that I upload from
the net. I keep video of these tricky procedures. I’m free to
use my computer and not really worry about anything.
Way way more fun than work.
I started doing video 4 years ago. Now 300GB drives are cheap
I could start reloading everything I have ever done. And that’s
lots and lots of video.
Cheers
Spectate Swamp AKA Doug and his Computer.