walterra

On cnet I recently found an article which sounds interesting: They describe Parallels Workstation, a virtualization solution for intel-based macs. With this software you don't have to reboot into another OS like with Apple's Bootcamp and you don't have such big performance drawbacks like in VirtualPC (if I remember correctly VPC emulates a Pentium2 with S3-graphics with no real opengl). It runs applications from other OSes alongside Mac OS X. I have no idea what that means for the interface and GUI. However, it seems a promising option with the mac intel-desktops hopefully coming soon.

I put my thoughts on this topic on newsvine.com and started a poll regarding Houdini on Macs:
http://walterra.newsvine.com/_news/2006/07/19/292817-sidefxs-houdini-on-a-mac [walterra.newsvine.com]