[AccessD] Bootcamp or Paralells - was RE: OT: iPhone/iPad development on an MS Windows PC - noway?

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
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> 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
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