November 2006

For years now, I’ve carried a PowerBook and a Dell C400 notebook in my bag when I travel (which I do a LOT). Almost all the sites I work on are either Windows or Unix sites. I’ve used the Dell with VMWare Desktop and an external hard drive to build “virtual machines” for each client site, which allowed me to set up each machine exactly the way the client environment looked, and prevent them from conflicting with each other.

Now, with Parallels, I’m doing the same thing on my MacBook Pro C2D and have given up the C400 (and all the extra gear) completely. The best part? My backpack is about 10 pounds lighter!

Although the initial versions of Parallels were a little buggy, and couldn’t do everything I needed, later versions have been getting much better, and with the latest build (release 2.5 build 3188), I no longer have any complaints.

And… The best part? I can run 2 or 3 Windows machines side-by-side at the same time, and each one is considerably faster than my old C400. I typically only run one at a time, but occasionally have a need to run one Windows 2000 machine hosting an Oracle 10g database, and another running a CM product called Harvest.

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