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    VMWare Fusion 3 Fuses Snow Leopard and Windows 7 With Full 64-Bit Power

    Google Loses Guy Who Caused Steve Ballmer To Throw a Chair

    VMWare Fusion vs. Parallels Desktop for Mac: Which Is Faster?

    VMWare For Mobile Devices Lets You Run Windows and Android Simultaneously

    VMware Pushing Virtual Machines for Smartphones, Will Support Parallel OSes

    VMware Fusion 2.0 for Macs, Virtualization With 100 New Features

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    Image of psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!
    10/27/09

    In reply to VMWare Fusion 3 Fuses Snow Leopard and Windows 7 With Full 64-Bit Power
    Blasphemy. #fusion3
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    Image of itchytooth itchytooth
    10/27/09

    In reply to VMWare Fusion 3 Fuses Snow Leopard and Windows 7 With Full 64-Bit Power
    Anyone tried playing blu-ray movies on a Mac with VMWare Fusion? I'm wondering if my recent model Mini could handle it via virtualization. #fusion3
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    Image of Canoehead Canoehead
    10/27/09

    In reply to VMWare Fusion 3 Fuses Snow Leopard and Windows 7 With Full 64-Bit Power
    I am currently running Vista 64 in a VM Machine - can I first upgrade to Fusion 3 and then upgrade the Win Virtual Machine to Win 7? Just to make it trickier, my Virtual Machine installation is also a Bootcamp partition. #fusion3
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    Image of Michael Roy Michael Roy
    10/27/09

    @Canoehead: yes, you can do that #fusion3
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    Image of Monty Monty
    10/27/09

    In reply to VMWare Fusion 3 Fuses Snow Leopard and Windows 7 With Full 64-Bit Power
    What percentage of the OS for Snow Leopard and Windows 7 is truly 64 bit? I understand they have been converting it pieces at a time, but there has been some debate in the developer community whether the speed improvements have been entirely from converting it or whether the re-write itself could have shown a significant amount of the improvement in 32 bit. Also, by merely supporting 64 bit, are we truly seeing the speed improvement through this support? I assume so, but we have had some experiences with ESX, depending on the cycle of the moon, that improvements like this have been minimal at best. #fusion3
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    Image of matt buchanan matt buchanan
    10/27/09

    @Monty: It runs as a native 64-bit process in snow leopard, meaning it has access to more than 4GB of ram. #fusion3
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    Image of trevisol: Stop putting words in my mouth trevisol: Stop putting words in my mouth
    10/27/09

    @Monty: Well the 64-bit advantage primarily has to do with memory addressing I believe. With a 64-bit Snow Leopard machine running 64-bit VMWare Fusion, running 64-bit Windows 7, you'd have, first of all, a base OS that can address more than 4GB of ram (which is important if you want to give your Windows 7 Guest OS a significant amount of RAM). The more this filters down, it gives those crazy cats running Mac Pro's with 16GB of RAM the ability to run Windows 7 with 8GB of RAM.

    In Snow Leopard, of the 25 or so System Processes in Activity Monitor, only two (lsd and kernel_task) are not 64-bit.

    Most apps I run (Firefox, Filemaker Pro, Office 2008 etc) are still running in 32-bit mode.

    One disturbing thing is that Adobe's Creative Suite 4 runs in 32-bit mode apparently. I would think, other than VMWare Fusion, that Photoshop would be the next application in line to receive gobs of RAM. . . . #fusion3
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    Image of Monty Monty
    10/27/09

    @matt buchanan: Brilliant - thank you, Matt. That was the reason we made some switches on our servers to 64 bit as well -- how quickly I forget. Clearly my memory is still stuck in the 8 bit world at 32K. #fusion3
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    10/27/09

    In reply to VMWare Fusion 3 Fuses Snow Leopard and Windows 7 With Full 64-Bit Power
    Why run only a specific subset of operating systems when you can run any damn operating system you please? Eh? #fusion3
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    Image of dagamer34 dagamer34
    10/27/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: I know! That's why I'm switching back! I only need a browser and an e-mail client. #fusion3
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    Image of Identity (Metric) Identity (Metric)
    07/14/09

    In reply to Google Loses Guy Who Caused Steve Ballmer To Throw a Chair
    Ballmer called Schmidt a pussy? Awesome
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    Image of nikaru nikaru
    07/15/09

    @mysecretidentity: Ballmer is awesome. Where the heck did the author get the idea that Ballmer called Schmidt a pussy? Give us proof or you're just a bunch of liars.
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    07/15/09

    @nikaru: Proof is like facts. On the internet, neither matter. I could say, "A guy who I used to hang out with got pulled over on the way to the hospital. He was driving so fast because he got shot." That happens to be a true story, btw.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    07/14/09

    In reply to Google Loses Guy Who Caused Steve Ballmer To Throw a Chair
    I would call making Balmer pitch his seating over losing you as an employee the best job reference EVER.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    07/14/09

    @Curves: Good point. First of all you were so valuable to cause that kind of outburst. Second you made Ballmer look stupid and that alone should be worth a job.
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    07/14/09

    @Curves: completely agreed.
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    Image of grundy grundy
    07/14/09

    In reply to Google Loses Guy Who Caused Steve Ballmer To Throw a Chair
    Now we know what he does all day, makes the pretty pictures on his wall.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    07/14/09

    @grundy: They were the original Win7 wallpapers. Then they slipped something 'special' in his coffee. And thus the cooooool Win7 wallpapers were born.

    And from a few recent statements a slight side effect in his in ability to know the shipping dates of any of his products
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    Image of DallasEquiette DallasEquiette
    07/14/09

    In reply to Google Loses Guy Who Caused Steve Ballmer To Throw a Chair
    Google isn't a house of cards, but it is going to eventally bottom out. Google's existence depends on the desire of companies to advertise to specific groups, a service Google provides in abundance. But with such a lean economic climate right now, businesses are trimming ad budgets. This is forcing Google to expand their focus into fields - like cell phones, VOIP, Operating systems, etc. Eventually, they will lose advertisers because they will become the competition to those advertisers, essentially dropping the bottom out of the company and all of their "free" services.
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    Image of NurseDave NurseDave
    07/14/09

    @DallasEquiette: Of course in the current Popular Science there's an article about eSolar which is a Google funded solar energy company with a contract to build 11 46-megawatt power plants in the SW and plan to build a ton in India.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    07/14/09

    @DallasEquiette:I think Google earns something like 98% of its revenue from advertising. Not a house of cards, but it has only one cash cow and everything else suckles at its cow boobies.
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    Image of SarojLuniz SarojLuniz
    07/14/09

    In reply to Google Loses Guy Who Caused Steve Ballmer To Throw a Chair
    Ballmer is actually correct...Google is a house of cards. Google is Yahoo. You saw what happened to Yahoo. There will always be another search engine to come along and take over, Google will be no exception. Their stock and value is extremely over-valued.
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    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    07/14/09

    @SarojLuniz:



    Yahoo didn't expand. They were a one trick pony (unless you count that awesome yahoo toolbar).



    Google is constantly expanding, first by leveraging new online services such as googledocs, but also by creating software for the mobile sector, a web browser, and soon, a full-fledged OS. They are not the same.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    07/14/09

    @SarojLuniz: And Google could prove there is always another OS waiting around the corner too. Heck MS proved that themselves many times.

    Though Anexanhume is quiet right, Google are expanding, at a stupidly high rate too, they have their fingers in alot of projects. which MS have too, much like spreading the weight around so as not to push down to hard in one place n fall through.

    Google may have started out as a search engine and a rival to Yahoo, but it's now a software company and a rival to MS and Apple.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/15/09

    @SarojLuniz:



    google is yahoo if yahoo didn't suck. but yahoo does suck. and so, in conclusion, google is not yahoo.
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    Image of opazhman opazhman
    07/14/09

    In reply to Google Loses Guy Who Caused Steve Ballmer To Throw a Chair
    LMAO!!! I just read that story, I can't imagine Ballmer sweating his ass off lifting that chair.
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    Image of Weihovah Weihovah
    07/14/09

    @opazhman: ballmer eats chairs for breakfast
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    Image of kuriakos kuriakos
    03/09/09

    In reply to VMWare Fusion vs. Parallels Desktop for Mac: Which Is Faster?
    Studies show that PCs run windows way faster than comparable Macs.
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    Image of laxman15 laxman15
    03/09/09

    @kuriakos: I hope your joking...thats has got to be one of the most obvious statements in the world.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/09/09

    @kuriakos: Actually studies show that circa fall '96 when I purchased my Macbook Pro it ran XP slightly faster than most comparable laptops.
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    Image of Mr.V. Mr.V.
    03/09/09

    In reply to VMWare Fusion vs. Parallels Desktop for Mac: Which Is Faster?
    IMHO, they both suck ass.

    Both are laggy and freeze a bit.

    I'm all for BootCamp.
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    Image of MrThunderfield MrThunderfield
    03/09/09

    @ItsRabid: Yeah... isn't BootCamp more clean? More like a clean install of Windows without some middleman virtualization software?
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    Image of Mr.V. Mr.V.
    03/09/09

    @MrThunderfield:

    It is.

    And you don't have to split the power between partitions, either.


    (ugh, ever try running Steam in VM?)

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/09/09

    @ItsRabid: Yep, I dual boot. On the occasions I NEED to use Windows, I need the full power of the machine brought to bear.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    03/09/09

    @ItsRabid: I run Windows Vista on my MacBook Pro in BootCamp almost as much as I run Mac OS 10.5. If you don't mind having to reboot, it's great.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/26/09

    In reply to VMWare For Mobile Devices Lets You Run Windows and Android Simultaneously
    This is impressive. I thought the 880's native Linux based OS was pretty good. If Nokia makes another rev. of this internet tablet I'd be interested in seeing them switch over to Android for the OS.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/26/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: This is definitely hot! But it's just sad that it's unlikely to make any difference in the phone market. But this would make mobile phone computing so much more versatile an dpowerful, perhaps bringing us an eensy-weensy step closer to Charles Stross's "mobies" from Halting State.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/26/09

    @BeautifulAgony: I know. A friend of mine got the N810 a few months ago. It was definitely very cool. If it had a SIM slot and I could make calls with it I wouldn't mind carrying it around and leaving my phone home once in a while. Otherwise I just couldn't justify spending the money on what essentially is half a netbook.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/26/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Agreed. The other problem with a hybrid device is that if my battery dies while surfing Giz and Fleshbot, then I'm up a creek the rest of the day for getting calls or texting anyone.


    It sucks carrying around multiple devices, but I'd put up with it if it was truly modular and supported multiple OS's (or OS upgrading) for better app support. WinMo devices have the caveat of becoming obsolete as newer OS revisions appear, or conversely, application development stagnates to accomodate older versions of WinMo.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/26/09

    @BeautifulAgony: Keeping our portable devices charged will always be a pain in the ass, at least for now. That's one of the annoyances I experience whenever I change phones. The chargers aren't universal and I end up buying extra ones so I can make sure I always have a charger available (home, work, car) in the event it's needed.


    As it is I can usually do everything I want with my N95. It also helps for those occasional forays into FB when I'm at work...

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    Image of Killjoy Killjoy
    11/11/08

    In reply to VMware Pushing Virtual Machines for Smartphones, Will Support Parallel OSes
    "Platform agnostic." If the author created that term then I salute you, sir.
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    Image of DisposableInterloper DisposableInterloper
    11/11/08

    @Killjoy:

    He didn't.
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    Image of Killjoy Killjoy
    11/11/08

    @DisposableInterloper: Then I damn him to the outer reaches of Dis.


    Oh, what the hell. Come home, author. All is forgiven.

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    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    11/11/08

    @Killjoy: PHEW!
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