[olug] Parallels

[Brandon Lederer]

This won't be a problem in the near future.  The next version of OS X will be 
fully resolution independent!

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 19:03, Adam Lassek wrote:
> When you switch from full-screen to windowed mode, the resolution
> stays set to your full screen size, so you have to use the scroll
> bars. If you want windowed mode to be at a lower resolution so it fits
> on your screen, you have to manually change it every time.
>
> Trust me, you would consider partial USB support a problem if you're
> waiting five hours for data to transfer from an external hard drive,
> and firewire is much more prevalent on Macs so thats a pretty big
> problem too. Yeah, there's work-arounds but nontheless I would
> consider these to be basic features.
>
> On 10/22/06, Michael Osten <mosten at bleepyou.com> wrote:
> > On Oct 22, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Adam Lassek wrote:
> > > That's pretty cool, switching from full-screen to windowed in
> > > Parallels is really broken. How did you do virtual desktops, is it a
> > > third-party program?
> > >
> > > I consider Parallels to be beta-quality software due to the
> > > aforementioned resizing issue and the lack of Firewire or USB 2.0
> > > support.
> > >
> > > On 10/21/06, Michael Osten <mosten at bleepyou.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've never had any problems with switching from full screen to
> > windowed (or vice versa).  Command-enter does the trick.  Also,
> > Parallels has USB support (maybe not 2.0, but I wouldn't call it
> > "beta" for that).  Vmware is on version 5 now, and no firewire
> > support, so I'd say the Parallels people are on track.  The virtual
> > desktops is provided by "VirtueDesktops" http://virtuedesktops.info/
> > (freeware).
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