Hell Freezes Over
Monday, January 22, 2007
OK, so it’s happened. As you can see, there’s Windows XP running on my new MacBook Pro.
Using Parallels went pretty well, except the XP disk I got was corrupt so the installation hung. Welcome to the world of Microsoft.
Another disk installed perfectly, and soon I was opening sites in IE6, and adjusting them in TextMate on the mac, refreshing and seeing the changes.
Unsurprisingly, running both OSs is a bit of a memory hog - even the Core 2 Duo is sluggish with only 1GB of RAM, so I’d say another gig or two might find its way into the machine soon.
But it makes a big difference to be able to test sites wherever I am, and with Parallels I can run Vista too when the time comes. And not having to shut down and reboot into just Windows (a la BootCamp) is a real benefit.
It just feels so wrong, somehow.