“A big part of the recent blistering success enjoyed by Apple has been an upsurge in the sales of the company’s Macintosh computers. While Mac sales still account for only a small share of world-wide computer sales, they have been growing three to five times as fast as overall PC sales,” Walt Mossberg reports for The Wall Street Journal.
“Part of this success results from the fact that Macs are excellent machines that handle the most important and common tasks as well as — or better than — computers running Microsoft Windows,” Mossberg reports.
“But the new popularity of the Mac is also partly due to the fact that it can now run Windows along with Apple’s superior Mac OS X operating system. That means that if there’s a program you need that comes only in a Windows version, you can run it on any current Mac model, speedily and with all its features,” Mossberg reports.
Mossberg reports, “Starting next week, there will be a new way to do this. A company called VMWare, long the leader in what’s called ‘virtualization’ — running multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single computer — will be selling a program called Fusion that allows Windows, and Windows programs, to run on a Mac.”
Mossberg has been testing Fusion and reviews it and compares it to Parallels Desktop for Mac in his full article here.
“…run Windows along with Apple’s superior Mac OS X…”
Don’t you just love the sound of that (the truth, that is)?
Any news on directx 3D
I was severely dissapointed when I couldn’t play GTA San Andreas on my Parallels 3D installation
Parallels only runs directx 8… For many games we need directx 9
It’s called BootCamp.
Check it out.
I gave up on Parallels, not because it’s rubbish, but because all I need runs on OS X.
I’ve had Parallels and Fusion for several months now. I like Fusions ease of use much better than Parallels. The set up is extremely easy–even a caveman could do it.
The one thing that frustrates me about Paralles is Kespesky stuff. It freezes the virtual machine–not slow it down but actually locks the machine up.
Who the hell is this Mossberg guy and what the hell is the Wall Street Journal? I’d take his delirious nonsense with a grain of salt. I can’t imagine this rag nobody’s ever heard of even has editors, otherwise lies like this wouldn’t be published.
All I know is Gamerz magazine and the Ultra PeeCee Zone blog never mentions MACs. Ever. Because MACs can’t play games, don’t run Zune Marketplace and you can’t customize them. They cost too much too and Vista basically is a MAC only better so you Apple lemmings are being taken.
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Ain’t no Windows needed here anymore…
Sooner or later it’ll be the same everywhere.
What is it with all this Mac news??
Lets here about the iPhone……………..
@AJ,
I gave up on Kaspersky too. In fact, I had Norton installed at one point on my Parallels Win XP installation. It seems the only time I open up windows now is to use a non-standards based website or to show others that I have Windows on my MacBook.
I think Parallels makes great software. The only thing I don’t like about Parallels is that it is a RAM hog.
I read Mossberg’s article. I was dissapointed that the actual comparison/review was only a paragraph or so. But I guess if everything works fine, there’s not much to say.
Is it just me, or is it ironic that for years millions of Mac users were screaming about how Windows is evil and unnecessary, and how they would NEVER use a computer that runs Windows. And now many are falling all over themselves trying several methods to find the best way to run Windows on their machines.
It reminds of me how many years I heard about how “Intel Sucks!” and overnight, with The Steve’s blessing, they changed their tune to “Intel Rocks!”
VMware Fusion is available for 50% off (only $40) till next week or whenever they formally announce it. vmware.com I just bought it.
Mossberg is pretty good, but the Wall Street Journal has recently been converted into a paper-based right-wing blog, so I expect he’ll be looking for a new job pretty soon. It’s just a matter of time until Murdoch changes the paper from the Wall Street Journal to the Wall Street Jingo.
Intel rocks?
Years of broken Motorola and IBM promises will do that to you.
Getting Windows to run properly on any computer is the ultimate goal of any computer geek.
Mac user – Sadly it is a way to get the Mac into the corporate world. Secondly it is used as a safety blanket for those who are nervous about swiching and for those who run games.
@ Mac User
All these Mac users who are “trying several methods to find the best way to run Windows on their machines” are recent Windows converts. You have to excuse their thinking that they still need Windows. Over time most will realise that OS X does everything they need much better than Windows and will remove it from their Macs. Long time Mac users do not want to and do not run Windows on their Macs.
@Mac user
I would LOVE to run everything on a Mac, and I do, for the most part. Except that in Canada there is NO accounting software for small business that runs on a Mac (Canadian users need GST ability and most software built in US doesn’t have enought tax flexibility built in). Intuit messed things up when they bought the distibution rights to MYOB for Canada and then killed the product. Sage Simply Accounting is Windows Only.
Cognito Software (from New Zealand) has something now, but it’s not what the accountants and book keepers are used to. They’re all familiar with QuickBooks and Simply Accounting.
Zune Tang must be living under a rock …
Zune Tang is funny.
Zune, Your problem. Your parents’ fault.
Anyone know if there are any virtual machine solutions that can share the windows install of a bootcamp partition?
Parrallels.
…and it is spelled with on ‘r’
Parallels
LOL
I cannot spell anything today. Good night.
MDN MW: ‘likely’ as in this post is ‘likely’ to have spelling errors too.
Anyone used Parallels or Fusion with Windows games? I’m planning to get a MBP soon, and I want a virtual machine for testing websites in Windows, but I also want to play games. I’m sure that Boot Camp would be the best option, but if a VM works, I’d rather keep the disk to one partition. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Just about the only useful thing the article says is that Fusion doesn’t slow down his Mac as much as Parallels does.
Nothing much else…