Rocky Smolin
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Fri Sep 14 15:22:16 CDT 2012
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