Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/10

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Subject: [Leica] Mac - Solid State or HD - for Tina
From: pjleeson at mchsi.com (Philip Leeson)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:50:06 -0600
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Parallels 5 seems to be much better than 4.
Looks to me like their Customer Service is mainly a revenue stream, though.

I've used BootCamp and P5 seems nearly as fast.

Phil
On Nov 10, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Brian Reid wrote:

> 
>> Brian had said in the past that he preferred VMWare.
> 
> I've used both. I actually preferred Parallels, but I ran into some 
> nagging bugs that I couldn't get their customer service people to help me 
> with. I switched to VMware, which didn't have those bugs (presumably it 
> has others), and it has worked perfectly. I was astonished to discover 
> that VMware could use the virtual machine files that were created and left 
> behind by Parallels.
> 
> I find that using a Windows system on a Mac is not a compromise or a 
> kludge or a workaround. It's real, it works well, and it's perfectly OK to 
> plan on using it in the long term. That surprised me, as I expected it to 
> be all of those things (compromise, kludge, workaround).
> 
> 
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