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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.

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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.

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You just contradicted yourself. :)If it is so easy to start/stop the vmware service, then do it yourself?

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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.

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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"

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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&quot;&gt;http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/products/product4.nsf/wdocs/macsupport&lt;/a&gt;

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