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To: Don Green who wrote (53176)	5/22/2006 12:54:29 PM
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How are the speeds compared to earlier Virtual PC software or the dual boot side? Virtual PC is so annoyingly slow it's pathetic. Parallels is a "Ferrari compared with the old Virtual PC's Yugo", says Business Week of an early beta (no longer called Workstation, now called Parallels Desktop instead): businessweek.com This is what a reviewer said of beta 2 of Parallels (we're now in beta 7): "The speed in Parallels was astonishing--not simply astonishing for being inside a virtual environment, but astonishing for a real physical PC. The company claims 90 percent of native performance and initial (unscientific) usage suggests they are not lying." macwindows.com As far as I can tell, the Windows side operates just as fast as the Mac side. On my MacBook Pro 15" with dual 2.16 GHz processors and 2 GB of RAM, I simply cannot tell a difference.

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