![]() ![]() “The benefits are pretty clear over a real PC: It’s running on the Mac you know and love but you’re not sacrificing access to the occasional Windows-only app that you might need. The idea is that program acts as a virtual machine (VM) and its job is to be the PC (one of the more boring drama classes), tricking the client OS into thinking it’s inside a real x86 machine with a physical hard drive, keyboard, Ethernet card, etc., when in reality, it’s merely grabbing unused CPU cycles and RAM inside another OS to do it’s thing,” Girard writes. For those that are just getting to the party, here’s a bit of a breakdown on virtualization. “Okay, virtualization isn’t totally new–it’s just new to Macs and Parallels Desktop is the first out the door with a 1.0 product for Mactels. Not even the Hula Hoop can stop this one,” Dave Girard writes fro Ars Technica. Add to that the fact that it’s cheaper than getting a new machine and you have the guaranteed latest craze. It’s no contest, virtualization has it all: multiple operating systems running on the same machine at nearly the full speed of the host’s processor with each system seamlessly networking with the next. ![]() ![]() “Move over emulation, virtualization is in and it’s hotter than two Jessica Albas wresting the devil himself in a pit of molten steel. ![]()
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