Parallels Beta Stable for me

15. Aug, 2006 2 Comments

I upgraded to the Parallels Beta, and so far so good. Everything that I do day-to-day (I live 80% of the time in Parallels) works fine, including the July CTP of .NET 3.0.

The big bonus for me is the fact that shift-F11 is no longer passed back to Mac (which used to cause the Parallels window to slowly slide up to the top). This means that when I’m debugging code in VS.NET, I can now step out of the current method again!

The really big feature that I’m waiting on is NAT support. Hopefully that one makes it into the next release …

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2 Responses to “Parallels Beta Stable for me”

  1. Kris 16. Aug, 2006 at 4:34 pm

    John, am I to understand that you are doing your Windows development under OSX/Parallels? What are the specs on your machine and how would you characterize the experience with regards to performance of VS, etc.? I’d love to be able to do this but have been skeptical as to how practical it would be.
    Thanks,
    Kris

  2. John Lam 17. Aug, 2006 at 12:04 am

    Yes – I do all of my development under Parallels. I have a MacBook Pro – 1.83GHz, 2GB, 100GB 7200rpm disk.
    Performance is great. I haven’t programmed on native hardware in a long, long time. It feels every bit as fast as VMWare under Windows XP on my Opteron 175 box (even though it has a *much* faster disk subsystem – RAID 0+1 with 4x7200rpm disks).
    YMMV :)