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RyanSmithAT: Does anyone happen to know how many write cycles a Spansion/SkyHigh S34ML01G100TFI00 NAND chip is rated for?.

RyanSmithAT: Thanks! I wasn't having much luck finding the answer.

RyanSmithAT: I did the math on how much of their NAND write endurance was burnt through by ASUS's router snafu.

RyanSmithAT: While I know that SPR added a 4th frequency level for AMX (on top of the existing 3 for reg/AVX2/AVX512)….

I suspect the smallest model may get a 13" 1280x800 widescreen too, considering that as of the Aperture 1.1 update, Apple has arbitrarily (and very annoyingly) removed support for my 1024x768 iBook G4 12" 1.33 GHz, and is saying that a minimum 1280x780 screen is required, even though no such laptop is available yet from Apple. I'm most interested in a smaller model though, so I have to wait regardless. Even if we don't get Blu-ray drives by the time Merom is incorporated into MacBook Pros, in the very least we'll have 8X DVD-R support as well as dual-layer support.

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Moreover, Boot Camp and Parallels' Workstation both will be improved by then, and Apple's pro line of laptops may just have Blu-ray drives as well available as an option. By the time Merom is introduced later this year there will be even more Universal Binaries available for the platform and hopefully by then all of the issues with the current MacBook Pros will have been worked out. I would recommend waiting for a Merom version if you can. Once virtualized graphics and I/O are here, the days of being stuck with a single OS on a single platform will be long gone. One thing is for sure, the VM route does hold a great deal of potential for the future.

Currently my only needs for Windows XP are when I want to play a game or need IE for a particular website the former would require Boot Camp while the latter is better suited for a VM solution. I think my preference would change depending on what I needed to be in Windows XP to do. Overall running Windows XP as a VM using Parallels' Workstation is extremely convenient, but personally the choppy animations are annoying enough to the point where I'd almost rather use Boot Camp. In the end, the fact that the MacBook Pro has two cores works out very well for use with a VM manager as the VM can use one of the cores while your other core handles whatever you may be doing in your host OS. The CPU performance was quite good, although the VM only allows Windows XP to access a single core of the Core Duo processor. Needless to say, the improvements in beta 3 make Parallels' solution far more interesting as an alternative to Boot Camp.

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The animations in Windows XP were still quite laggy unfortunately, but without a real GPU driver that's not going to change. The updates in beta 3 made the mouse lag virtually disappear, which was a huge improvement over beta 2. Update: While finishing up this article Parallels released beta 3 of their Workstation VMM for OS X, one of its improvements happened to be an increase in performance and an improved mouse synchronization tool. There is a Parallels video driver bundled that is supposed to improve things, but you still get nowhere near the performance of hardware accelerated 2D graphics.

What this translates to are choppy animations and a laggy mouse pointer when you're navigating around Windows XP of course, don't even think about running any 3D games. The sync tool makes it so that anything you copy in one OS is available to be pasted in the other and vice versa, making the VM truly behave like just another application running in OS X.īy far the biggest drawback of the Parallels' Workstation VM is that the GPU makers currently don't support any sort of GPU virtualization, meaning all of the graphics are CPU rendered when running the VM.

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Parallels' Workstation also comes with a set of tools that you can install in Windows that enable additional functionality such as a clipboard synchronization tool. Ctrl clicking acted as a right mouse button and obviously all of my function keys worked.

All of the things that wouldn't work on the keyboard in Boot Camp worked just fine in the VM.