switch from mac to windows with a keystroke

[afornander]

go to http://apple.qj.net/The-Two-Faces-Of-Mac-OS-X-and-Win-XP-At-The-Same-Time-/pg/49/aid/44998

acording to qj.net, somebody has found a way to switch from os x to windows xp on there macbook (not pro) with the touch of a few simple keys. from the video shown on the page it looks like decent speed to. how many people believe it.

 

[macsrockmysocks]

I am 90% sure he is using Parrallels(or however you spell it).

 

[Nuc]

That would be awesome if this is true. I will definitely be upgrading in August once the Core 2 Duo is released if this is true.

Nuc

Edit: macsrockmysocks does parallel due the rotating cube to switch between the systems. Seems to be a great program if this works.

 

[remowilliams]

That is most definitely the Parallels product.

http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/

 

[afornander]

it looks like he is user switching when he changes OS's. so ya just have parallels running windows and linux in fullscreen on diffrent users then fast swich the user easy. case solved.

 

[Nuc]

I went looking on the web and found: Link

One of the Guys in the forum said this was an added feature (cube rotating) in beta 5 or 6. I wish parallel gave more description on the software instead of having to fish through their site and other sites...

Nuc

 

[iHeartTheApple]

Wow! Very impressive. I'll definitely be trying this one out soon...

 

[MRU]

Yep that's parallels.

The recently released final product is a bit more buggy than the previous BETA

Parallels is grand if you dont need to do too much in windows, but you cant do anything excessive. No audio recording, 3D games etc...... USB support is still very hit and miss.

 

[jwkay]

They're using Parallels and Virtue, according to the video info on YouTube. Windows & Linux are running full-screen on their own virtual desktop.

 

[Josias]

I'm sure they used para-dudes or wotever, but it looked cool anyway.

 

[Makosuke]

You really want to have some fun, try combining Parallels in fullscreen mode with the SmackBook thing, and you can switch between Windows and OSX by tapping the side of your computer. If that wouldn't be geek cool, I don't know what would.

Sadly, though, in a very quick test it doesn't work all that well; when you smack to switch desktops, it kicks Parallels out of fullscreen mode because Parallels actually takes over the monitor to do it, instead of just hiding the menu bar and making a fullscreen window.

if you could get Parallels to run fullscreen but in a window with no menu bar (ala some fullscreen "demo" apps, or something like FrontRow), then you could do this. So cool.