Parallels: 'more big news for you'

[Roy Hobbs]

That's a bummer. I would really have liked to be able to flip through spaces on each monitor independently.

What I saw was an early Beta, so you never know what could happen.

 

[bankshot]

Maybe Apple will buy it and / or integrate it fully into the Leopard-OS

What would be nice is the ability to virtualize another copy of OS X within itself. It would be fantastic for developers wanting to testing their applications in older versions of OS X. Of course, that may not be terribly useful if you have an Intel Mac and want to test in Panther which is PPC only.

I can also see plenty of value in doing this for OS X Server, running multiple virtual servers on the same 8-core box.

I've gone ahead and pre-ordered my upgrade to Parallels 3.0. Hopefully it's as good as they say it is, though I have my reservations with all the new features - particularly, how will performance be affected? In my experience, the most recent released versions tend to perform much more slowly than the first versions that were out last summer. I've even thought about downgrading because it gets so bad sometimes - apparently they're doing something with writing memory to disk, which may improve stability but it sure slows things down to a crawl sometimes. Kind of annoying!

The next weeks will be interesting for sure, both for Parallels stuff and for OS X software in general. It's about time -- so sick of all this iPhone crap!

 

[chelsel]

Will the new Leopard OSX finally give me a menu bar in each application or at least monitor? I want to switch to the Mac but that drives me nuts... especially in a multi-monitor setup... it's so illogical to have an app on the left or right monitor but the menu is on the middle monitor... ugh.

 

[kalisphoenix]

What would be nice is the ability to virtualize another copy of OS X within itself. It would be fantastic for developers wanting to testing their applications in older versions of OS X.

You can do that with Linux (sorry if you know that already), so I know it's technically possible. Apple could do it elegantly, too. I'd personally like this because it could allow multiple people to log in on the same machine -- Fast User Switching on crack -- on dual-monitor or VNC setups. Also nice for OS X Server administration on a computer that someone's using. You don't need to kick them off. Bad for security, almost surely.

Staggering amount of RAM, though.