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 | I've spent part of the past few weeks benchmarking how well the three leading virtualization applications for the Mac perform. I tested Parallels, Fusion, and VirtualBox, and threw in Apple's Boot Camp for good measure. The results were surprising. If you plan to run Windows on your Mac, take a look at our benchmark results. In Mac news this week, PCWorld says Apple smokes the competition, at least when it comes to reliability and support. Apple took top honors once again in the annual reliability survey. | |
Virtualization Benchmark: Parallels, Fusion, and VirtualBox
Virtualization environments for the Mac have been popular applications ever since Apple made the move to Intel-based processors. Along with the move to X86-compatible processors came the ability to run Windows, Linux, and other popular OSes directly on the Mac's hardware. Even Apple itself got into the act, by releasing Boot Camp Assistant, an application that lets you install and run Windows on your Mac in a multi-boot environment. The purpose of this series of benchmarks is to measure the performance of Parallels, Fusion, and VirtualBox, to see how they compare against each other, and to see how they compare to the native performance of the OS running standalone in a non-virtualization environment... Read more
| Review: Adobe Premiere Elements 9
Premiere Elements 9 has finally made the transition from a PC-only application to one that now also runs on the Mac. By bringing Premiere Elements 9 to the Mac, Adobe offers Mac users a sweet video editing suite that offers capabilities well beyond those found in Apple's iMovie. Of course, with the increase in abilities comes an increase in complexity. So, does Premiere Elements 9 have what it takes to attract iMovie users who are ready to move up to a video editor with more professional capabilities?... Read more
| File Sharing With Snow Leopard
Setting up Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) to share files with a PC running Windows 7 is a fairly straightforward process. In fact, it may be the easiest of all the Windows operating systems to share files with. But, like any networking task, it's helpful to understand how the underlying process works. Snow Leopard uses the same file sharing system that was first introduced with Leopard (OS X 10.5). If you have used file sharing in OS X 10.5, then the setup process will be very familiar to you. If you haven't used file sharing on the Mac in a long time, you'll discover that Apple reconfigured the way Windows file sharing is set up... Read more
| Browser Shootout 2010: Which Mac Browser Is the Best?
I'm often asked which is the best Mac browser to use. My answer is always the same: It's the one that you like the best. Many individuals want a more quantifiable answer, though, so to see if we can put some measurements behind browser performance, we decided to perform a Mac browser benchmark test... Read more
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