On the Mac Bandwagon

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Never would have thought it would happen but I guess I am on the Apple bandwagon, don’t expect to see any Apple logos on my vehicle any time soon though. I decided to buy a new system and am pretty happy with it so far.

Picked up an Apple 30″ Cinema Display and a MacBook Pro 2.33ghz with 3GB RAM and a 200 GB HD.

Running a resolution of 2560×1600 is pretty freaking sweet :)

I would have never made the switch if it wasn’t for Parallels, which is IMO the coolest software I have seen for any platform. It’s a virtualization product like VMware but what sets it apart is a feature called “Coherence” which meshes the 2 OS’s together.

This YouTube video probably explains it better then I can:

2 Responses to “On the Mac Bandwagon”

  1. benatparallels Says:

    Mike -

    This is Ben @ Parallels…I’m the guy who made the YouTube video (and I’m also Parallels’ Director of Corporate Communications). Glad you love our stuff! :)

  2. Windows Virtualization for Mac: Who performs the best?-- Diary of a Bad Golfer Says:

    [...] When I first got my Mac (Before VMware Fusion was out) I swore by Parallels - Coherence was such an awesome feature that allowed Mac and Windows programs to run side by side. Once VMware came out with Fusion I wanted to see what the difference was - the main difference was that Fusion doesn’t have a start bar in Unity mode, it only has a program launch menu. Hated this at first but now I really like that feature. [...]

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