Sunday, September 24, 2006

Vista(mac)

I just got round to installing Vista RC under Parallels on my mac, went pretty well, couple of minor things like running the Parallel tools in compatibility mode, having to manually add a share in the tools for the Mac directory but apart from that pretty smooth.

Runs about the same as XP as far as I can tell, looks nice to me, probably because i've been using 2007 Office for a while and there are some similarities in the UI, most things seem to be in similar places but have a 'rich' feel to it, I also guess that's because I don't have all the features of the new UI enabled as the video driver is virtualised and therefore not as good as it could be even on the graphics in the Macbook, however looks ok to me

I tried to install Cisco VPN but it failed so guess I need to find a Vista version assuming it exists, or for all I know it may have VPN built in, be interesting to see if I can get it to run and use Vista rather than XP for my corporate needs, time will tell, right now Ryder Cup is warming up so it's just been a peripheral activity :) - C'mon Europe !!