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<blockquote data-quote="fleurya" data-source="post: 395744" data-attributes="member: 22866"><p>It's getting pretty close to the point where anything can be done through Parallels/VM. I don't know about business applications, but one of the biggest issues facing consumers is running 3D graphics for gaming for example. But that's already being overcome. VMware Fusion is in a beta phase and can run 3D up to DirectX 8 I think. Parallels won't be far behind. I'm actually hoping they'll have it running pretty much everything by the next major release.</p><p></p><p>What's your budget for spending? The bad thing about virtual machines is they need faster hardware. I've found I need 2GB RAM to run XP in Parallels well enough to match it running natively with 512MB RAM. And if you plan to use Vista, it will be worse. You would have to justify the extra spending on that over machines that are much cheaper because the hardware requirements aren't as high.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fleurya, post: 395744, member: 22866"] It's getting pretty close to the point where anything can be done through Parallels/VM. I don't know about business applications, but one of the biggest issues facing consumers is running 3D graphics for gaming for example. But that's already being overcome. VMware Fusion is in a beta phase and can run 3D up to DirectX 8 I think. Parallels won't be far behind. I'm actually hoping they'll have it running pretty much everything by the next major release. What's your budget for spending? The bad thing about virtual machines is they need faster hardware. I've found I need 2GB RAM to run XP in Parallels well enough to match it running natively with 512MB RAM. And if you plan to use Vista, it will be worse. You would have to justify the extra spending on that over machines that are much cheaper because the hardware requirements aren't as high. [/QUOTE]
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