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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (59264)	12/12/2006 8:31:37 AM
From: Stock Puppy	Read Replies (1) of 213183

Thanks for sharing about Parallels. Is the current version considered beta? I'm about to try it out (as soon as I can get IT to install Windows). I'm pretty good at finding bugs - believe me if there is a bug in the way parallels works, I'll find it. While waiting just for fun I already tried to put a few flavors of Linux on Parallels. Absolutely no problems with the installs but I can't say much about using it as I haven't the time to try it out. I usually try out software by doing thing the way I think it should work and then find out the real method (which usually turns out something like stand on head, chew gum while replacing micro-minature gear in watch...) did try copy/paste between the Mac and Parallel (ctrl-C) and it didn't work. I don't like the way it "captures" the mouse - I figure it should be more transparent. Possibly there are ways to make it work the way I prefer. Anyway I got it out of the box only a few days ago and my main purpose is so that I don't have to have several platforms and to provide additional reliability. Plus it's always fun to watch the expression of the Apple fan-boys as they walk past the iMac that looks like it was hit with an ugly stick (with Windows on the screen- "Noooooo!"). At some point I was starting to feel like a fan-boy as I sometimes espouse the virtues of Mac-dom, in particular reliability. I recently bought 9 PCs - all brand names. (OK I had to :-)) 1 - DOA out of the box. Possibly power supply or startup circuit. 2 - disk crash after a few days use. 1 - OS Software had to be reloaded. 1 - motherboard went bad 5/9 with problems within a few days of use. Repairs/replacements are holding up. I think I feel better about liking Macs.

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