I use my MacBook Pro for both business and personal. At home, I try to use the Mac side as much as possible while still running a Windows Vista virtual machine at the same time for development stuff. When I’m at work, all I run is Vista from my virtual […]
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Virtualized Performance Part 2: Parallels
A couple of weeks ago I posted a story about virtualized performance where I did a comparison between VMware Fusion and Sun’s VirtualBox. I wanted to update that story to include some details on Windows performance when Parallels is added to the mix. Interestingly enough, Parallels really isn’t that much […]
Virtualized Performance: Fusion vs. VirtualBox
Been playing around a little bit with VMware’s Fusion 2.0 and Sun’s VirtualBox 2.1.2, two virtualization platforms that are available for Mac users. I will eventually expand this brief test to include Parallels 4.0, since it seems that Parallels and Fusion are the frontrunners when it comes to virtualization on […]
Fixing the MacBook Pro Sleep Problem
One of the things that my MacBook Pro has been plagued with for about the past month is it’s inability to go to sleep and wake back up successfully. Whenever I would open the lid to wake up the system, the screen would be completely blank, even though you hear […]
MacBook Pro: First Impressions
I’ve had the MacBook Pro for one day now. I got it up and running last night, installed VMware Fusion on it which allows me to run Vista inside the Mac OS. I have to say that between Boot Camp, which is part of Leopard, and VMware’s Fusion, I’m pretty […]
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Justin Braun has been a technologist for over 20 years, first getting his start in IT with a large international retailer in the 1990’s. He has a passion for new technology, mobile devices, software development, photography, and the weather. In his spare time, he is a managing editor at techbrieftoday.com, co-host of The Tech Five Podcast, and has blogged about his various technology interests right here since 2006.