![]() ![]() VMware and Parallels have made many advances in graphics acceleration, but multimedia applications remain unworkable in Mac virtualization. For me, the driver limitation hits hardest with the GPU. Mac virtualization amazingly covers most things you can plug into USB. Booting Windows allows access to peripherals requiring native (e.g., ExpressCard, USB Ethernet, any expansion card in Mac Pro) device drivers written for Windows.I have two feet on the Mac side and one in Windows, but Boot Camp offers some advantages that Windows virtualization cannot: While Apple markets a link between Time Machine and Time Capsule, buyers must consider the solutions separately.Īs to Boot Camp, to my chagrin and after championing the lack of need for it given the quality and speed of virtualization solutions from Parallels and VMware, I found that Boot Camp is unavoidable for professionals that truly live with one foot in Windows territory and one in the Mac. In my next post, I'll make it clear that Time Capsule, named to co-market with Time Machine, is a top-shelf product in its own right and highly scalable. ![]() Time Machine's promise - foolproof, hands-off backup and versioning - is a worthwhile one, but poorly executed by Time Machine. ![]() Time Machine is billed as a simple out-of-the-box solution, so it appeals to professionals and small businesses the way that iMovie and Garage Band do: They are simple, consumer-targeted products that have legitimate business use. I agree that the products don't pass the enterprise test. They are so totally consumer-level that they should almost be banned This note from a reader regarding my post on Time Machine erasing my Boot Camp partition: I have to comment that neither Time Machine nor Bootcamp are enterpriseĪpps. ![]()
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