engadget.com — Mac users, listen up: a video has appeared on YouTube that shows an internal beta version of VMWare running Windows games at full speed from within Mac OS X. Accompanying this intriguing video is a blog post from Regis Duchesne, a developer at VMWare.
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shakestheclownFeb 11, 2007
haha...what you said is almost as retarded as the article, "So, PC gaming fanboys, what are you going to do all day now that your favorite phrase -- "Mac gaming is an oxymoron" -- doesn't cut it on the Mac gaming forums anymore?"
digguser949Feb 11, 2007
I sold my POS imac last week, Apple is WAY over rated, never will I make that mistake again. If any one wants to buy my copy of Paralles for $40 let me know.
meatmcguffinFeb 11, 2007
Weirdly, and it sounds nuts, but some things are faster under virtualisation than running natively due to how the hypervisor manages system calls on Intel chips. Although it's probably not the case with 3D gaming, the lying gits.
linuxinitFeb 11, 2007
You just contradicted yourself. :)If it is so easy to start/stop the vmware service, then do it yourself?
fgsfdsFeb 11, 2007
That's not a contradiction. Handling it's services automatically is part of proper housekeeping, and assuming that the user intends to always have it running shows a lack of foresight. Personally, I was intending to use it for sandboxing risky executables and running legacy software, neither of which are tasks that require always-on virtual machines. When such capability isn't required, the additional resources would be quite useful.It's not that I *can't* clean up after it, it's that I shouldn't have to. Bloatware is unacceptable.
jrbrewinFeb 11, 2007
oh god.this article should read. "mac users, listen up. If you want to f**king well run windows, run it natively. No matter how clever or big it is to emulate or virtualise, you cannot, ever, beat running something natively. Now, remove your head from steve's anus"
Closed AccountFeb 15, 2007
You do realize you can get Lotus Notes for OS X, right?<a class="user" href="http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/products/product4.nsf/wdocs/macsupport">http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/products/product4.nsf/wdocs/macsupport</a>