....... I don’t understand the difference between BootCamp, Parallels and VM Fusion. Do you have to have BootCamp to use or run Parallels or Fusion on your Mac?
If I bought a MacBook or MacMini and loaded a copy of Windows and my 2 Windows based trading programs on it, I guess I could just connect to either my Mac and PC friends networks when visiting them. A dual use machine sounds like a good idea.
I’ve also thought of just buying an external hard drive, partitioning it for both Mac and Windows OS’s and loading the programs on that and carrying that with me instead of a computer. I don’t know if this is possible. The objective is to save money and weight.
74 posted on 10/17/2007 5:40:18 AM MDT by garyhope
Parallels allows you to run a MS op/sys ~$40; no need to reboot; VMware Fusion allows you to run your MS op/sys environment as an application Bootcamp allows you to dual boot the mac; you need to reboot to switch op/sys.
It's Free from Apple. requires MS license
Gussied up open source WINE code; requires MS license
~$40 full cut-and-paste; no reboot; requires MS license;
seamless including networking it is a virtual MS machine inside your mac under OS X
re: Parallels
A couple of corrections. I think xenia is thinking about Crossover Max which is the Wine Windows API replacement project that is $40 and does not require Windows to run some Windows apps. Parallels costs $80 and requires a Windows license.