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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...
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