Keith -
I just thought I'd show you what I mean about being able to run IE alongside your Mac applications using Parallels. This works the same way in VMWare.
Here are two screenshots, showing how I have IE open on my Mac, right next to Safari. In one, Safari is in the foreground, and one has IE in front. The IE window acts like any other application window on the Mac would, though it has the Windows controls in the upper right.
Safari in front:
IE in front:
It seems to me that using a dual monitor config, running one OS on one monitor and one on the other gives you almost the same thing as having two computers, except that you only have one keyboard and mouse. Why not just have one big monitor, and let your application windows intermingle like this?
By the way, you can configure Parallels (or VMWare) to show the Windows Taskbar at the bottom of your screen if you want to. If I'm only running one Windows app, that seems unnecessary. If I have more than one, I can get the Taskbar back with two clicks of the mouse.
- Allen |
