[Discussion] Thinking of going IMAC

[dushanm at spinn.net]

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Gerry Chilibeck wrote:
> 
> OK, 15 years of OS/2 and eCS and it is time for a change and challenge.
> I have had a 2Gh desktop hand made that still runs like a top and just
> have had no need for eCS R2 because my hardware is still so good
> after 7 years. (runing now still on 1.2R) 
> 
> I do not relish the need of researching Video cards and drivers,
> printers, ACPI bioses, buggy Lucide and Flash, etc....etc. 
> 
> SO, thinking of going to IMAC  27", 1 tb hd and then using Parallels
> V5 and loading Snow Leopard v10.6, eCS GA and winXP. 
> 
> I am reasonably tech competent dealing with eCS and win95/XP to a lesser
> extent.   I have never done any virtualization stuff of any kind. 
> 
> So, has anyone here done what I am thinking of doing on any MAC?? 
> 
> Is Parallels Desktop for MAC a major or minor install challenge?? 
> 
> On Parallels lists, there is this thread that said eCS RC5 installed on
> Parallels 4.0 just fine. 
> 
> <http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=19594> 
> 
> Don Burch....Have you tried it ?? 
> 
> I need to keep eCS for KeyRing/2, LSS and just the greatest WPshell.

I did that about three years ago, and found it much more work than I had
anticipated.  In a nutshell here are my reactions: 

(1) Parallels 2.5 worked but died regularly every 1.5 days or so (froze).
    Parallels support thin, then non-existent, then greatly improved
    (after high-up complaint).  Finally ver. 4 came out which worked with-
    out the freezes, but had no clock or clipboard transfer.  All support
    completely disappeared (for everybody) about a year ago, and all men-
    tion of OS/2 or eCS disappeared.  Personally, I've entirely given up
    on them. 

(2) Have beeen unable to install any version of OS/2 / eCS using Fusion. 

(3) VirtualBox is still evolving and may be a better bet. 

(4) For anyone who appreciates OS/2's and eCS' configurability, they'll
    find Mac OS X frustrating.  Yes, if you're Unix whiz you could probably
    adjust it however you like, but short of that you'll have a lot of work
    to do. 

(5) If you're happy with the choices given you, and only have to learn new
    ways of doing things, you'll probably be making the right choice. 

(6) Many of the hardware issues are solved with the Mac. 

My $0.02. 

 - Dushan Mitrovich