Video of Parallels running Windows XP on Mac OS X

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I “installed the Mac OS X beta from Parallels and demonstrated the speed of XP by reinstalling Firefox, surfing, and rebooting. Running on Intel iMac 2.0 Ghz (256 MB VRAM, 1.5 GB RAM, 512 MB given to XP),” prodedgy writes on YouTube:

Video permalink: http://youtube.com/watch?v=AC_DuAUTHWI

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Shieldzee” for the heads up.]

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  6. I just sold all my shares, here’s why:

    1) the stock went to high to quickly, to many people (shareholders) are watching it and they see the red percentage decline and they will sell it, the force is ENERMOUS ( close to $10billion worth force is watching it )

    2) it’s friday, less buyers more sellers.

    3) earning reports might come on monday and if it is dissapointing , it can result in a sharp decline.

    4) because the stock will close both ” down ” as well as ” under 70 ” it will bring in even more sellers on monday. ( people will see apple having gone down on friday on both days of the weekend as well as on monday morning )

    5) Critics have not come out of the closet yet, bootcamp was released just 2 days ago, critics and anti-apple or simply attention seeking media will test it out and come out with negative news pointing out its flaws, which will make the stock decline even more.

    6) Shorters might also jump in before stock goes down any more which will result in even more declines. but this is not worthy of pointing since reason #1 far outweighs this one.

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  8. The fact that it APPLE’s stock went up by a $10billion worth buyers in less than 2 days, and the fact that it is both in the red and under 70 and its friday which means less demand both because it is friday and because people are not interested in a stock that is not green ( red )…

    you connect those dots and it makes no sense to buy the stock today at a ” low ” price because it is likely to close at a ” all time low ” for the day . which means even if it is under $69, it is still not attractive, it can go way lower.

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  13. “>6 Reasons why you should not buy Apple stock.>

    Where did you go to school? California, I’ll bet.”

    ron, leave him alone. Just by reading his post you can see he has an ENERMOUS intellect.

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  18. 10 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD BUY APPLE STOCK:

    1) its hot
    2) its sexy
    3) its got ipod
    4) ipod shuffle to.
    5) boot camp can make you install Microsoft Windows XP.
    6) everyone already sold it its friday its bargain deal!
    7) steve jobs will announce HIGHER THAN EXPECTED EARNINGS ON MONDAY! THE STOCK WILL ZOOM TO $51.94
    8) apple owns america
    9) its free cash you dont have to work for to lose.
    10) excellent company while steve jobs is still alive.

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  19. Time to start mingling and making new friends, folks. It’s all one big party now. Excercising some basic social skills would be appropriate at this juncture, eh?

    Let’s skip the snark and get on with computing ’cause .. we got tools. All of us. Movin’ on. Yes indeed.

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  20. Please, Vista is already a has been before it has even been released. And with its 7 confusing configurations who would want it anyways. It’s just an XP service pack update basically with more promises of security like XP.Bootcamp will just make it that much easier to see how superior the Mac OS and its hardware really is. It also it gives that extra flexability when there isn’t a Mac application for a special project. Now you can run that Windows app at full speed and get that project done without having to find a PC or suffer through a virtual PC experience which is way to slow.

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  23. I’m am not fooling, this is serious.

    Don’t come running to me on Monday or Tuesday when everything hits.

    I’ve warned all of you, and I do it humbley, but this is too much for the average invester to understand.

    These things have HUGE swings, and their’s no telling what will happen next week.

    I don’t understand why you don’t like me. I made you pie.

    Why are the children laughing?

    Why do old people kick me at the park?

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  26. Wow, that xp system does look fast… Faster than Tiger running on the same mac, I’d say.

    But hang on a sec… don’t believe everything you see on the internet. XP is old, and deadly slow. No way could it be that fast. All it takes is for the author to speed the footage up a bit (easily done in most video editors), and Hey Presto! – xp on steroids.

    But anyway… this is a far better way of implementing windoze on a mac than silly ol’ Boot Camp.

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  27. HeLLO! Doesn’t anyone else feeling dirty running windows on Apple hardware? There is very little I need from Windows, maybe Vista will be better, but why do I care? Everyone is jumping up and down because they’ve added Windows to OSX, just too surreal! There are still Mac users who feel abandoned by Apple when OSX came out, many have never moved up, they’re still using systems from the last century. Many feel betrayed by the intel move, they’re not moving over. Now we have Windows actually as an OS on the Mac! Mac only programmers, who there are few left, are being abandoned for those making PC software. Apple is jetisoning the loyal user base that got them through the death knell years only to court money from the pc world. This compromise is dangerous, we may very well be victims of a Trojan horse. Where is the integrity? Have we been blindly following Steve Jobs when he has actually been as evil as Microsoft?

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  30. Parallels probably boots Windows XP so fast on OS X for the same reason Win4Lin boots Windows 98 in about 2 seconds on Linux: It doesn’t have to initialize any of the hardware. The hardware is probably controlled with the OS X drivers via a single terminal server.

    I wonder why Win4Lin wasn’t able to put out a decent XP sandbox for Linux even though they’ve been working on it for years, and yet Parellels, which seemingly came out of nowhere, was able to do it on UNIX so quickly after the release of the X86 Mac.

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  31. I just moved out of California after living in Los Angeles for five years. Let me tell you, most of the people I encountered out there don’t have what I would call a 4th grade level knowledge of history, science, civics, math or spelling. Los Angeles schools just pass everybody because they’re so overcrowded and under-funded that they can’t hold everyone back who deserves to be. If you behave yourself, don’t bring guns and knives to class and don’t cause too many problems, you get to move on.

    I don’t think that problem is typical of ALL of California’s schools, though. I’m sure Orange County, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and even San Diego’s schools are all doing a much better job than the horrible, horrible schools of Los Angeles County.

    The only city with just as bad if not worse public schools is Chicago.

    Lets allocate another 180 billion to Iraq, shall we?

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  33. Why else would Apple release bootcamp now other than to distract from slower/non-accelearting iPod sales.

    iPod sales might be slower this quarter than last? You mean they cancelled MarchChristmas this year?

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  34. >Los Angeles schools just pass everybody because they’re so overcrowded and under-funded that they can’t hold everyone back who deserves to be. >

    They’re not under-funded, most of the teachers are not up to scratch and there’s a total lack of discipline. That goes for life in general in our (once)great country. Just look at Un- Holywood.

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  35. They’re not under-funded, most of the teachers are not up to scratch and there’s a total lack of discipline.

    That’s because they’re under-funded. The class sizes are too big, the equipment is poor and there’s not enough of it, the text books are outdated, and they can’t afford to pay their teachers enough to attract decent, intelligent people to the profession. It all comes back to money.

    Let me guess, you’re one of those guys who thinks all these problems would magically go away if they would just post the ten commandments on the walls and force the kids to pray to the christian god every morning?

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  36. Let’s just say the pessimists are right – even if Apple DID ditch OS X for Windows, it would be wasting hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of intellectual property. It would have nothing to lose and a lot to gain by licensing it to other PC makers, wouldn’t it?

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  38. I know a lot of loyal Apple followers must be upset with boot camp, but I really think Apple is after Dell, HP and all the other computer hardware manufactures. Just think about it, why buy from them when you can run both OS’s on ours? I’ve even read that some people with the help of boot camp have been able to run linux and vista. Apple is totally after hardware sales. As for giving up OSX, Steve loves his OS and most likely hold on to it until he’s gone.

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  40. Wow. Wow wow wow. Apple needs to toss Parallels a few millon bucks and have this standard in Leopard. The ability to get quick access to Windows apps without leaving OSX will really improve the Mac’s popularity.

    And remember, it’s not Windows that can run on this thing. It could run Linux. Or hell, even an unstable developer’s build of OSX! (Nice not to have to reboot if the OS crashes.)

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  41. jooop, you’re an idiot. Money doesn’t solve all problems. They don’t have competent teachers in CA because CA doesn’t expect their teachers to be competent. That’s obvious from the tests they give their teachers and the low minimum scores they need to pass them.

    If you want to live in a socialist country there are many places in Europe that would love to have you. Most of this country’s budget is spent on education and social programs….and geeze look how well we’re doing with the “war on poverty”. That’s the basic liberal mindset….if there’s a problem lets throw money at it, and if we don’t have enough money just raise taxes, raise taxes, raise taxes.

    The dirty little secret about freedom is that your on your own.

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  42. “I’ve warned all of you, and I do it humbley, but this is too much for the average invester to understand.”

    Very hard to take you seriously when you misspell “humbly” and “investor”, two mistakes in one sentence!

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  44. Now I understand why Apple is (at last) putting goops of VRAM into their iMacs and MBP’s – not only to support more monitors, but virtualisation may require a full 64M for each of Tiger and XP to write to without having to swap VRAM out and lose performance.

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  46. Jooop,

    CA schools are not underfunded, the state school system has one of the highest per-student budgets in the country.

    The majority of the funds doesn’t go to classrooms, it ends up going for administration costs.

    I grew up in CA, started school in 1956. CA has gone from being in the top ten nationally to today’s position in the bottom five. The state school system is broken, and raising teacher salaries won’t fix it. (If/when more money is allocated, you can bet that administration costs will still suck up most of the funds.)

    Non-state schools have a better record, and they don’t pay generally higher salaries to teachers, among other things. They don’t have to deal with the state teacher’s union, either, which is also broken.

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  47. That’s the basic liberal mindset….if there’s a problem lets throw money at it

    Your “conservative” president has borrowed more money from foreign countries than all previous presidents COMBINED.

    Your “conserviative” president has racked up the highest federal budget deficit in history.

    That’s the basic neo-conservative mindset…if there’s a problem, let’s borrow money for it.

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  48. >Your “conserviative” president has racked up the highest federal budget deficit in history.>

    What’s a conserviative?

    I’m an immigrant, but even I know that Congress is the arm of government that spends the money.

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  49. Agreed. Apple should buy Parallels. Now.

    Dual booting and VM’ing XP, Linux, MacOS. Whatever you want. All on an Apple Macintosh. Why buy anything else?

    And all you fools who think this is the end of OS X…

    This is more of an end for Windows than MacOS. Windows will now become THE third rate OS it always has been. Apple has just relegated Windows to an also ran on the home desktop. It will be running UNDER MacOS at home and in IT departments. The workplace will still use cheap PCs. No it won’t happen this year or next but it will happen slowly.

    MDN word: industry. Industry changes slowly.

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  54. the reason why XP boots up so fast in my opinion is because this movie has been accellerated!!

    look how fast this guy is typing in web adresses, and even with numbers.. thats to fast!! its been faked!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  55. >Ron, not in 6’s defense, but why the crack about CA school’s?>

    You have to be joking!

    No. I asked in all seriousness.

    Am I to gather you are unable to asnwer the question?

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  57. I have a MacBook Pro 2.0GHz and installed Parallels on it today. I’m blown away by the speed – this product rocks. I can tell you that the XP video in this post has not been accelerated – it’s smokin fast for me.

    Already installed Win2K Server, almost done installing Solaris 10 now, then on to NetBSD and OpenBSD — woohooo! I’ll definitely be spending the $50 for this one.

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  59. Not everyone types slow. I often type so fast, most people are in disbelief, especially when you throw in autocomplete. I honestly don’t think the video is sped up. Firefox installed just as fast for me in Parallels and the my 2.0GHz system looks just as fast as the video.

    Get an Intel Mac and try it for yourself.

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  62. For your information, unless you’re teaching in CA you have no idea what you’re talking about. Ex.
    1. I teach in a 20′ x 20′ room and have 36-37 each period
    2. I learned Algebra in 9th grade (HS), I’m teaching Algebra to 8th, and need to cover more than I learned in 9th grade.
    3. I was taught in 55 min periods, I’m teaching 45 min periods
    4. I have 6 periods x 36, over 200 students to teach, in 45 min I have to cover HW, new lessons, guided practice, intervention, and remediate any weak skills.
    5. State testing is done in the first week of May, covering 100% of the state standards, when we’ve only covered about 75% of the material (rushed).

    So when you say money isn’t need, you’re fooling yourself. CA’s per student spending is at the lower have of the country’s, and our standards are the highest. Money IS needed to reduce class sizes, increase student support services, and increase instructional time. That’s how you improve student performance.

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  63. For your information, unless you’re teaching in CA you have no idea what you’re talking about. Ex.
    1. I teach in a 20′ x 20′ room and have 36-37 each period
    2. I learned Algebra in 9th grade (HS), I’m teaching Algebra to 8th, and need to cover more than I learned in 9th grade.
    3. I was taught in 55 min periods, I’m teaching 45 min periods
    4. I have 6 periods x 36, over 200 students to teach, in 45 min I have to cover HW, new lessons, guided practice, intervention, and remediate any weak skills.
    5. State testing is done in the first week of May, covering 100% of the state standards, when we’ve only covered about 75% of the material (rushed).

    So when you say money isn’t need, you’re fooling yourself. CA’s per student spending is at the lower have of the country’s, and our standards are the highest. Money IS needed to reduce class sizes, increase student support services, and increase instructional time. That’s how you improve student performance.

    Reply

  64. For your information, unless you’re teaching in CA you have no idea what you’re talking about. Ex.
    1. I teach in a 20′ x 20′ room and have 36-37 each period
    2. I learned Algebra in 9th grade (HS), I’m teaching Algebra to 8th, and need to cover more than I learned in 9th grade.
    3. I was taught in 55 min periods, I’m teaching 45 min periods
    4. I have 6 periods x 36, over 200 students to teach, in 45 min I have to cover HW, new lessons, guided practice, intervention, and remediate any weak skills.
    5. State testing is done in the first week of May, covering 100% of the state standards, when we’ve only covered about 75% of the material (rushed).

    So when you say money isn’t need, you’re fooling yourself. CA’s per student spending is at the lower have of the country’s, and our standards are the highest. Money IS needed to reduce class sizes, increase student support services, and increase instructional time. That’s how you improve student performance.

    Reply

  65. For your information, unless you’re teaching in CA you have no idea what you’re talking about. Ex.
    1. I teach in a 20′ x 20′ room and have 36-37 each period
    2. I learned Algebra in 9th grade (HS), I’m teaching Algebra to 8th, and need to cover more than I learned in 9th grade.
    3. I was taught in 55 min periods, I’m teaching 45 min periods
    4. I have 6 periods x 36, over 200 students to teach, in 45 min I have to cover HW, new lessons, guided practice, intervention, and remediate any weak skills.
    5. State testing is done in the first week of May, covering 100% of the state standards, when we’ve only covered about 75% of the material (rushed).

    So when you say money isn’t need, you’re fooling yourself. CA’s per student spending is at the lower have of the country’s, and our standards are the highest. Money IS needed to reduce class sizes, increase student support services, and increase instructional time. That’s how you improve student performance.

    Reply

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