Who needs a PC?

[mikecentola]

This is pretty cool, and I thought some of you guys might like this

VMWare Fusion is basically like Parallels for Macs. It allows me to run windows in a virtual environment. What pushed me to VMWare Fusion over Parallels was the fact that I can use x64 Guest operating systems within Fusion, and that is not available in Parallels, yet.

Check out these two screenshots... One is in the regular windowed version, and the second one is using Unity, which is really cool!

[xceebeex]

I thought you hated Windows though?

[dmoffitt]

... strangely familiar

(gotta use FF/IE Win for web testing, hate it or not)

[xceebeex]

Originally Posted by dmoffitt

(gotta use FF/IE Win for web testing, hate it or not)

Is that the ONLY reason you guys use it then?

[mikecentola]

Originally Posted by xceebeex

I thought you hated Windows though?

I do.

But I have to use IE to test websites....and I'll prob put quickbooks on it.

[mikecentola]

Originally Posted by xceebeex

Is that the ONLY reason you guys use it then?

Yup, is there any other reason to use windows?

[dmoffitt]

Originally Posted by xceebeex

Is that the ONLY reason you guys use it then?

yup. I use it because there are still other people out there who use it...

I do have a separate BootCamp (non-virtualized / native install) partition for the RARE occasion I want to play an old DirectX game like HalfLife2 / Counter-Strike but lately I've been preferring console gaming for the simplicity / controls so that's probably going to get wiped, the ~40GB of space it takes up vs how infrequently I use it (haven't booted XP for over a month natively) isn't worth it.

[xceebeex]

Originally Posted by dmoffitt

yup. I use it because there are still other people out there who use it...

Haha, well thats the understatement of the year.

You know what I think would be interesting....if lots of people start switching to Mac and it closes the gap on the Windows user base, I wonder how secure it will remain.

I am willing to bet that the reason it is much better in terms of lack of viruses and spyware is because there are not enough people using it. Why waste time devolping viruses or spyware for such a minority? Could be interesting.

[mikecentola]

Originally Posted by xceebeex

Haha, well thats the understatement of the year.

You know what I think would be interesting....if lots of people start switching to Mac and it closes the gap on the Windows user base, I wonder how secure it will remain.

I am willing to bet that the reason it is much better in terms of lack of viruses and spyware is because there are not enough people using it. Why waste time devolping viruses or spyware for such a minority? Could be interesting.

Unlikely since OS X is unix based....

[xceebeex]

Originally Posted by mikecentola