jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Sep 14 21:47:02 CDT 2012
Almost certainly, a VM is emulated. However with the speed of hardware these days... John W. Colby Colby Consulting Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 9/14/2012 4:22 PM, Rocky Smolin wrote: > Thanks - do you know if there's any difference in speed, response time, > etc.? > > R > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 10:29 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Bootcamp or Paralells - was RE: OT: iPhone/iPad > development on an MS Windows PC - noway? > > Bootcamp requires selecting which OS to boot into, i.e. only one of the OSes > is available at the time. Parallels runs Windows7 (or other OS) in a VM > under the Mac and thus both are available "simultaneously" which is less > intrusive if you ask me. > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > > Reality is what refuses to go away > when you do not believe in it > > On 9/14/2012 1:07 PM, Rocky Smolin wrote: >> If I want to run my commercial app on a Mac and recommend how to do it >> to clients who want to use Mac but run my app, which is better - >> Bootcamp or Parallels? >> >> Rocky >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele >> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 9:44 AM >> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving >> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: iPhone/iPad development on an MS Windows PC >> - noway? >> >> Hi Shamil: >> >> You can always use Bootcamp which effectively runs Windows directly on >> a Mac. >> >> I've got a fairly new Macbook Pro - 2.3ghz I5, 8gb ram. I just did >> some quick timing tests opening an A2003 database and running a big >> report. I also did the same on my older 2.66ghz Core2 Duo 4gb Windows 7 > 32bit box. >> >> I just counted off the time manually, so this is pretty rough. But >> repeatedly running the same report on Bootcamp (32 bit Windows 7), in >> Parallels (64 bit Windows 7) and on the Windows machine all seemed to >> take the same time - about 12 seconds on all versions. >> >> Psychologically at least, my experience with using all 3 approaches is >> that I can't tell the difference. >> >> Doug >> >> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil >> <mcp2004 at mail.ru>wrote: >> >>> Hi All -- >>> >>> I do like my Windows Phone 7.5(:)) and it has a set of features, >>> which are good enough for me currently, I like Windows 7 and as I >>> have written here several times I have no any objections on new >>> "Metro" UI for coming Windows >>> 8: desktop, tablet, phone. I suppose I'm rather effective VS2010/C#/... >>> developer, my customers like my work... >>> >>> ... but it .... "seems that the future of Windows development is >>> happening largely for corporate environments and customers. I don't >>> take issue with this other than being someone who doesn't live or >>> work inside a corporate environment at home..." (source: "50 Reasons >>> to Switch from Microsoft Windows to Apple's Mac OS X" - >>> >> http://chris.pirillo.com/50-reasons-to-switch-from-microsoft-windows-t >> o-appl >> es-mac-os-x/). >>> .. >>> >>> ... IOW I do plan to start learning iPhone/iPad (and Android) custom >>> development really soon and I have to find what is the most effective >>> yet as affordable as possible combination of hardware and software to >>> keep both MS Windows (desktop, Phone, tablet) and iPhone/iPad and >>> Android development... >>> >>> I suppose that getting a Mac instead of a PC is unavoidable but >>> should I additionally have an MS Windows driven box/laptop or running >>> MS Windows with Visual Studio on Mac under VMWare Fusion or Parallels >>> is as speedy as running MS Windows and Visual Studio on a "bare Intel >> processor metal"? >>> Does anybody here have a real life experience of MS WIndows >>> development on a Mac? Please advise. >>> >>> FYI: Some more links on the OT subject: >>> >>> A hardcore Windows guy gets a Mac >>> >>> http://www.davidalison.com/2008/02/hardcore-windows-guy-switches-to-m >>> a c.html iPhone Development On Windows - 7 Options >>> http://maniacdev.com/2010/01/iphone-development-windows-options-avail >>> a >>> ble/ >>> iPhone development on Windows >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/113547/iphone-development-on-windo >>> w >>> s >>> http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=537583 >>> Thank you. >>> >>> -- Shamil >>> -- >>> AccessD mailing list >>> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >>> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >