Re: AW: Xy on Mac revisited

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

At 09:11 AM 1/8/2007, Russ Urquhart wrote:
> I am chomping at the bit to get an intel based mac in order to try
> Parallels, Vmware, or any of the other tools to let me run Xywrite
> more natively. (I heard a rumor that for those mac users currently
> using Virtual PC would be able to their Virtual PC disk images be
> accessible from Parallels. This is just what i have heard, no
> confirmation.)
In the computer trade and consumer press, as well as on most of the
main-stream websites that write about Mac development, the virtual
machines don't get good reviews. They're slow, for the most part,
clunky. Boot Camp, however, which will be part of the new Mac OS,
Leopard, allows the WIN OS and apps to zip along. Since XP/TAME
handles XY-DOS well, shouldn't be a problem, if XP is one of the
other OS's. I realize there are other iterations to consider -- DOS
and so forth -- and other factors too, like: Apple hardware and its
durability, screen resolution on the Apple laptops, and on and on.
I'm on the cusp of making a decision about new hardware. I'm still
leaning to Lenovo and a desktop PC, maybe an HP, but I too am looking
hard at Apple/Leopard.
Michael Norman