The Power of Mac or a Pointless Use of Parallels

Okay, I'll admit right up front that this is completely pointless, but nonetheless it's a nice demonstration of the power of OS X (with Parallels). Jaanus over at Skype realized they have released clients for four platforms: OS X, Windows, Linux, and Windows Mobile. He started wondering if it would be possible to run all four at the same time. Turns out, thanks to Parallels, it is. He set up two Parallels virtual machines (one for Windows and one for Linux), then within the Windows VM he ran the Windows Mobile emulator. He had a little trouble with the WM version, but eventually even got that working. Behold the Power of Mac! Also, check out his screenshot on Flickr for full notes.
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I do this every day at work (except for the windows mobile--who cares?!?). Ubuntu, XP, Vista, OSX. 4 screens on virtue desktops, with a little slapbook thrown in. It scares old people. Intel Macs are Sick.
March 14 2007 at 2:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat's the power of a mac!
March 09 2007 at 5:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYou mean, "Behold, the power of Intel".
March 08 2007 at 2:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat's cool, I might want to re-title this one "The Power of Paralles"
March 07 2007 at 7:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@Victor, I'm laugh-groaning because it's true!
Nice feature set in theory, but they really needed to make the pen-tip reset button the biggest button on the phone, because it's used so much. A phone that can and will crash seems pointless.
(Throws Windows Mobile 5 based phone against the wall hoping it will improve its functionality.)
he had a little trouble with Windows Mobile? haha, *everyone* has a little trouble... use/crash/reboot-- and the beat goes on.
March 07 2007 at 5:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyinstead of having a full KDE desktop, he should have been forwarding X using Apple's X11 app (over SSH probably wouldn't be necessary). X11 has had "coherence" mode since its inception!
March 07 2007 at 5:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAnother selling point for macs! If you are a cross-platform developer you only need a mac and parallels for cross-platform testing! Sweet! It'd be great for Java development too so you can see how the app looks in all platforms.
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