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Solidifies Apple's Position for me.
Authored by: ajoakland on Apr 15, '06 09:12:05PM

I'm in the SysAdmin world (Solaris, Windows, Mac, Linux). This will make it easier to spend the money to upgrade my dying G3 iBook. Normally I don't need all the fancy graphics cards that the Pro (powerbook) line gives (gave) you, thought a dang fast CPU would be nice.

I am hoping for an iBook (MacBook?) that has the Duo Core processor AND a backlit keyboard. I won't spend the extra grand for the backlit keyboard, but if the iBook replacement only has a Single Core, then I'm probably going to buy the MacBook Pro to get the Duo.

I am much less interested in Dual Boot as I am interested in Parallel's virtualization option, especially being able to add things like Linux to the mix of virtual machines.

I really don't care if Apple gives us the virtualization or not, (my guess is that they won't, it'd be a support nightmare) but third party virtuals are just fine by me.

My big hope is that the Parallels Windows Partition will be bootable via a bootcamp choice, or vice-versa. It would be really nice to use BootCamp to install XP and the partition, and then use Parallels to access it.



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