Apple Laptop Parallel OS

• yongyong

  28 Feb 07, 19:29

  Anyone have any idea how this works ?
  
  I am using an Acer, with 2 Windows OS in it. ( different partition )
  
  Is parallel OS use in the Apple laptop talking about the same thing ?
• manyu882

  28 Feb 07, 23:36

  yes. correct me if wrong
• ^tamago^

  28 Feb 07, 23:46

  thought is something like boot camp on a apple machine, but it runs in a window instead of requiring you to reboot into windows like boot camp?
• yongyong

  28 Feb 07, 23:51

  wat is boot camp ? i have no idea how apply laptop works actually ~
  mind to ilustrate ?
• ^tamago^

  28 Feb 07, 23:57

  boot camp allows u to reboot into a windows partition on ur apple laptop.
  
  parallels runs windows inside an application window without the need to reboot. parallels is better, but it's not a freeware.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  1 Mar 07, 01:07

  Apple Boot Camp
  
  How it works exactly, not so sure. I'm not a Mac user. Perhaps the Mac users here could you on that.
  
  As for Parallel OS, better known as Parallels Desktop, it's a type of virtualization, something like VMWare.
  
  Instead of creating many partitions to load an OS, Parallels allow you to run two or more OS together, one of which is the main, the others are on a virtual partition.
  
  Their product is here, and some usage is written at ZDNet.
• BÃ¥seline

  1 Mar 07, 01:14

  Never use this app before but tried Virtual PC many years ago. It is RAM hungry.
• SMLJ.sg

  2 Mar 07, 21:57

  First your mac have to be running on a intel based chip.Then you'll install the boot camp,and run it.Next they will prompt you to insert a blank cd to copy the mac drivers on it,which you'll need it after installing xp.
  
  After burning that cd,you can set the partition for your hard disk.Then you can start installing windows.I believe they have a step by step guide somewhere you can refer to.