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Laptops & desktops.(Letter to the editor)

Consumer Reports

| August 01, 2007 | Nelson, P.L.; Sauvage, James | COPYRIGHT 2007 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In your computer report in June, you mention a feature of the Mac OS X Leopard called Boot Camp, which allows one to dual boot Mac Intel Core 2 Duo machines, and thus run either Mac OS X or Windows Vista. A much better way to go is through virtualization with a product like Parallels, which allows Windows and Linux to operate alongside Mac OS X at the same time.

P.L. NELSON URBANA, IL

Virtualization software is a good choice for users who need to run applications in two operating systems at once. But it comes with some costs: You have to pay for the software (Boot Camp is free), and your PC will need a faster processor and more memory to match the performance of a single-OS environment. Also, certain hardware, such as FireWire ports, might not work in the virtual ...

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