Yes, hell has officially frozen over
WOW! My 17″ iMac is now running a Virtualized copy of Win XP thanks to Parallels Workstation for Mac (luckily I still owned a copy of XP from the bad old days before I saw the Mac light). It is in fact, quite responsive, though there is definitely still quite a bit of work to be done (e.g. networking is fragile–thanks to endemic Windows suckiness–and there’s no sound support yet), but this is really shocking. Firefox and WIndows Media Player run just fine, opening up web content previously unavailable on the Mac. I’m personally much more interested in a virtualization solution like this one that in dual booting, though I’m also going to try Boot Camp tomorrow just see what kind of gaming performance old Bonaventure is capable of. All in all, an amazing week; watch out for those flying pigs!