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Stefan Constantinescu said 5:36PM on 4-25-2006
Glad you're finally posting it! I’ve had it on my blog since yesterday, submitted a tip to you guys too
Hopefully parallels will learn from virtue and incorporate this sort of technology in to their final product.
Question I’ve meaning to ask you guys about is what exactly is growl? Is it popular? I’m hearing about it a lot.
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Andreas in Denmark said 5:49PM on 4-25-2006
Growl is a little app for notification. It hooks in to a lot of other apps and thereby enhances them.
E.g. CyberDuck upload/download. New mail in your Gmail (with Gmail Notifier). Completed download i Safari (with Saft). Current track in iTunes... And a lot more, those were the ones I could come up with.
You can change the prefrences in Growl to make the notifications look really neat.
Try it out - no Mac is complete without it.
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Gregory Pierce said 6:50PM on 4-25-2006
That is actually excellent and makes me want to rush out and buy an IntelMac despite wanting to wait for the next revision of the Powerbook/iMac before making a purchase :)
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Brian Clarke said 7:39PM on 4-25-2006
Wow. That is teh awesome!
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Nick Schoeneberger said 7:49PM on 4-25-2006
that is soooo slick. way cool.
I wonder if the performance is okay on the mini, though. I would imagine its snappier on an iMac.
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icerabbit said 7:55PM on 4-25-2006
Pretty sweet.
Will have to break down and buy one of those intel macs sooner rather than later.
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Michael Oman-Reagan said 10:27PM on 4-25-2006
I've got a similar set up on my iMac, running Windows XP and Ubuntu on Parallels and Mac OSX is hosting (8 desktops). Virtue has changed my life.
BTW, Parallels IS going to include cube switching in the next release, they've talked to the developer of Virtue and agreed to do it.
Now when will we see 1680 x 1050 support in virtue!
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Yak86 said 2:26AM on 4-26-2006
Maybe Apple should include some form of this in panther as an addition to bootcamp... like logging in to different machines, but also fast user switching? who knows. Definitely looks awesome tho.
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ALX said 3:43AM on 4-26-2006
Does anyone know if its better to use BootCamp or Parallels if you want to do some WindowsXP gaming? This looks awesome and i'd love to be able to switch super easy like that but i want to have a setup that'll have the best performance for games on XP on my Macbook.
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Joseph said 5:14AM on 4-26-2006
Oh my god! Does it work normal? No bugs? How about speed? I hope it won't drop down significantly
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Lcd said 5:23AM on 4-26-2006
Nice, very nice. If you post some benchmarks (3D would be awesome) on say CounterStrike in a virtualized XP so we could compare, that would be extremely useful.
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Matt Grover said 5:30AM on 4-26-2006
That's what Boot Camp should be!! W00T!
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Thorn said 10:07AM on 4-26-2006
ALX,
If you want to play games, you're going to have to use Boot Camp to dual-boot. Parallels rocks in pretty much every area *except* video for gaming.
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Thorn said 10:15AM on 4-26-2006
Nice. Beta 5 for Parallels just came out. How are they able to pump this stuff out so quickly when it takes other companies MONTHS to do anything?
Improvements and Fixes in Beta5:
* Introduced USB support. Connect your favorite USB devices directly to a virtual machine! Learn more about USB Support...
* Introduced shared folders. Share files between Mac OS X and any Windows XP or Windows 2003 guest virtual machine! Learn more about Shared Folders Support...
* Support for dynamic screen resolutions. When a guest OS is selected, a list of available screen resolutions is dynamically populated with primary OS resolutions.
* Fixed keyboard mapping problems
* Fixed mouse pointer lag problem
* Better sound support
* Fixed problems with sleeping/waking up the primary OS when a VM is running
* Introduced the ability to resize a guest when switching to fullscreen mode
* Added optional "transition cube" animation for transitioning to and from fullscreen mode
* Fixed several kernel panics
* Added default network adapter for bridged mode
* Sound lag fixed
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Chris said 10:32AM on 4-26-2006
Thom,
I agree. The pace of development for Parallels for OS X is mind boggling. It makes me wonder how many programmers they have working on it.
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pnarse said 12:53PM on 4-26-2006
While the pace is indeed excellent (keep up the good work parallels!), remember this is a Mac OS port of an already completed product, they are not writing a new application this fast! :)
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H. Opheim said 5:14AM on 4-27-2006
Has anyone succeeded in forcing xorg.conf to allow for the MacBooks native 1440x900 resolution, thus allowing fullscreen mode of Fedora 5 (or any other mainstream linux distro, that is) using Parallels? I've managed to get it to run 1440x900 in windowed mode, but as soon as I push the full-screen button, it blacks out, and the entire Workstation instance dies on me. Needless to say, it does not work wonders on the integrity of Fedoras file system...:)
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