I see why the Mac users are hooked

[dd74]

Originally posted by stomachmonkey
Yeah Parallels costs but so does time.

If you are doing cross platform development you'd be nuts to 1) alter your code, 2) shut everything down 3) boot into windows and evaluate your result 4) reboot back into OS X and launch all your apps again to get back to work. The reboot thing forces you to lose your history/undo states. It's a really inneficient way to work.

I have my machines set up for Boot Camp and Parallels.

Parallels is set up to boot from my Boot Camp partion so it's using the same dedicated filespace.

Parallels is not emulation, it's a Virtual Machine. There is a big difference.

Hmmm. All that's really good to know. Thing is, it doesn't apply whatsoever to what I do between the OSX and XP.

Emulation vs. virtual machine = big difference? They're both copying how a program works.

What I do know is my Mac with Boot Camp and XP boots much faster than my dedicated Thinkpad or Dell. I can't find speeds like that through Parallels, Virtual PC, VM or whatever...

[stomachmonkey]

That's why the options are so great. There is a solution for every work habit, need and budget.

The diff between Emulation and Virtualiztion is significant.

Virtual PC is emulation, it is an environment that runs an OS on non naticve hardware so all the API, hardware calls have to be "translated" from one "language" to another.

Parallels and VM Ware are true Virtual spaces. An OS running in memoery space on it's native hardware. All the calls are passed directly to the hardware, not translated.

VM's are a developers tool. They are allow you to try different hardware environments without the expense of the physical hardware.

Good quick read. http://blog.1530technologies.com/2006/08/virtual_machine.html

[stomachmonkey]

God, I just reread that. Disclaimer. I am not responsible for spelling as I've been up 40 of the last 48 hours and am seeing the light at the end of this project so I also had some wine. Actually a lot of wine.

[kstar]

I didn't learn this one until a few days after getting my MacBook Pro - moving two fingers simultaneously on the track-pad will get you scrolling. Huge help, IMO.

You can even program more track-pad actions in Preferences, but after trying double-tap actions, went back to only two finger scrolling.

Best,

Kurt

[dd74]

Originally posted by stomachmonkey
That's why the options are so great. There is a solution for every work habit, need and budget.

The diff between Emulation and Virtualiztion is significant.

Virtual PC is emulation, it is an environment that runs an OS on non naticve hardware so all the API, hardware calls have to be "translated" from one "language" to another.

Parallels and VM Ware are true Virtual spaces. An OS running in memoery space on it's native hardware. All the calls are passed directly to the hardware, not translated.

VM's are a developers tool. They are allow you to try different hardware environments without the expense of the physical hardware.

Good quick read. http://blog.1530technologies.com/2006/08/virtual_machine.html

Thanks, SM - good stuff to know.

[dd74]

Speaking of the touchpad, for those with small screens but waning eyesight - try this - press CTRL while you have two fingers on the touchpad. Then with CTRL still down, slide your two fingers forward on the touchpad (or forward on the mouse wheel if you have a mouse).

Sweet, huh?

[holtjv]

Originally posted by dd74
Speaking of the touchpad, for those with small screens but waning eyesight - try this - press CTRL while you have two fingers on the touchpad. Then with CTRL still down, slide your two fingers forward on the touchpad (or forward on the mouse wheel if you have a mouse).

Sweet, huh?

Very sweet, thanks for that one. Works better than the PC version of it--way better, in fact.

I got the dual-fingered scrolling off the manual; amazing what reading one of those buggers can do for you.

Also played some movie trailers last night for the family using frontrow-god but the screen is incredible.

I'm hooked fully; functional and beautiful. Decided against the memory for now--if you buy the notebook online it's only a 175.00 upgrade. If you buy the notebook from the store you'll have to pay 350.00 for the online upgrade.

Here's something I learned: instead of minimizing windows using apple + M, hide them using apple+h. This way you can apple+tab to the desired hidden application and it is 'normalized' on the screen. If you try this with a window minimized it stays in the dock. Or did I get that wrong?

Any other neat efficiency tricks?

[stomachmonkey]

Wel lif you are like my wife and have a bzillion windows and apps open at the same time then go AppleMenu/System Preferences/Dashboard &Expose, set a hot corner (I like lower right).