Crossover one-ups Parallels Desktop
Sunday September 3, 2006 at 1:51 pm | Filed under Mac
First there was Boot Camp from Apple. It allowed you to choose whether you wanted to boot Windows or OS X on any Intel-powered mac. Then came Parallels Desktop, which added the convenience of being able to toggle between Windows and OS X like you were hot-switching users. Later Parallels even made it so you could run a window containing the Windows OS and you could run that on your OS X desktop! Well, now it’s getting really easy to run Windows-only apps with the release of Crossover. This thing is only in BETA, and it has a list of “Compatible” things you can run, but it allows you to run windows apps on your mac without even having the Windows OS installed! Not too shabby.
Now that I’m not moving for awhile, I don’t really have a need for Visio, so I’m pretty sure the only reason I would run one of these peeks into Windows would be to play a few games that aren’t available for the Xbox 360 that I just simply must play. I think it’s more of a fun thing to learn how well it works and tweak with it. We’ll see how it all works out in a couple of weeks when my Mac Pro is finally delivered. I’ll keep you all updated with how it goes.
One Response to “Crossover one-ups Parallels Desktop”
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Curly Says:
September 4th, 2006 at 1:22 amI’m interested in seeing you post some stats comparing your G4 to the Mac Pro, doing the same task. Like HDRing a picture, or doing a long macro full of processor-intensive filters in Photoshop. That would be illuminating.