Stop the madness. First a hacker finds a way to boot Windows XP on a Mac, then Apple officially releases Boot Camp, now Parallels has released a product that lets you run Windows within Mac OS X. Being able to run Windows apps without having to reboot will be a time-saver for many people, and because it's not an emulator, Parallels claims you get “close to near-native” performance. They do this by utilizing Intel's "virtualization technology," which allows a single chip to split its resources among multiple operating systems--combined with dual-core chips, this makes a lot of sense.
In other news, reports have been trickling in that the windows version of Photoshop runs faster on a Mac--running windows. I've always understood Photoshop on a Mac to be faster because it's built on UNIX, as is OS X; but to be faster on XP, it would seem that Apple's underlying hardware is just better. This makes even less sense now that Macs are running on Intel chips, same as PCs. Stop the madness.
[via HD for Indies]
