Parallels report
Thanks for writing the article about running Windows on a Mac ( “ 4 way to Windows , ” May 2007 ) . I have one dubiousness : I ’m about to buy a new Mac miniskirt . I ’d really like to purchase Apple ’s Bluetooth keyboard and creep with it . But in your article , you said Parallels ’ Bluetooth support was inadequate . Should I just use Boot Camp instead?—David Pulphus
They should make finely . You might have bother with Bluetooth devices that do n’t have native OS X support , but that clearly is n’t the showcase with Apple keyboard and shiner . For instance , a Bluetooth GPS with Windows driver probably wo n’t work in Parallels ( it should work fine in Boot Camp , though ) . I use a wireless keyboard and mouse all the time in Parallels and VMWare Fusion with no problem.—Rob Griffiths
Rob Griffiths ’ article gave me just the information I needed to arrange a MacBook Pro with Parallels . But I was confuse by one thing . Griffiths states about Parallels , “ you may also run away Windows XP from a Boot Camp divider — have in mind that you need only one copy of Windows XP . ” But in “ Which Windows ? ” Christopher Breen writes , “ Microsoft demands that each installation have its own license . So if you like to establish it in both Boot Camp and a virtualization app , you ’ll want two window licenses . ” Does this mean that Parallels can reach the OS in the Boot Camp partition without problems?—Thom Duncan
In “ Which Windows , ” Christopher was verbalize about Microsoft ’s licensing forVista , which is quite complex . But if you ’re running XP with Boot Camp and Parallels , you need only the one license.—Rob Griffiths
I have been tempt to the Dark Side . Instead of put back my aging G4 with a raw Intel - based Macintosh , I have purchased a Dell PC . My main reasons : I need to run some osmium 9 programs ( especially PageMaker ) ; and if I have to buy a Windows rendering ( because OS 9 wo n’t run on those newfangled Intel Macs ) , I may as well run it on a Windows microcomputer . Also , with every update , OS X has become more bloated with new features that I do n’t employ and that often get in the way.—Steven Rudolph
Your effort to promote Microsoft Vista and related Microsoft software was amusing . Anyone who has ever unravel Microsoft programs will cursorily tell you that they are the most hemipteron - ride , glitch - filled , unproductive programs on the major planet . Anyone who would grease one’s palms a Mac and then load it with such terrible software package should have his or her head try . you’re able to put lip rouge on a pig , but in the end you ’ll still have a pig.—Tom Kirkman
The not-so-ultimate office
No UPS solution for “ The Ultimate Home Office ” ( May 2007 ) ? Christopher Breen must think either that nursing home power generators are common , or that it is no grownup deal to preserve your workplace every few minutes.—Scott Bunnell
While I ’m a firm believer in having a robust UPS ( or two or three ) , my main end in that story was to do up with lists of equipment necessary to get your study done right now . I was n’t unforced to give critical computers or software package to make room for a UPS , which , while I trust on them , not everyone absolutely require . Fortunately , the budgets I used in that level are arbitrary , and reader who ask a UPS certainly should invest in one.—Christopher Breen
I work for Apple as a product specialist . I was reading “ The Ultimate Home Office ” in your May 2007 take and track down across something you should be cognizant of . In “ The Luxury Office ” you write , “ Finally , when you ’re carrying around — and perhaps dropping — a laptop computer , Apple ’s three - year extensive warranty can give you some patch of intellect … . ” Apple ’s AppleCare Protection Plan does not cover any sort of inadvertent damage.—Joey Kelly
Absolutely correct . Regardless , AppleCare stay a full investment for a information processing system that is likely to get jostled during normal use.—Scholle Sawyer McFarland
In “ The Ultimate Home Office , ” Christopher Breen take that “ Hav - ing Apple install RAM was once prohibitively expensive , but now the caller ’s price are competitive . ” He then say that Apple ’s tup prices are cheaper than those of Crucial . Really ? I just bought a newfangled 15 - in 2.16GHz MacBook Pro . Apple offer to increase the RAM from the stock 1 GB to 2 GB for $ 175 . Instead , I buy another 1 GB stick of RAM from Crucial ’s Web site for $ 67.—Domenico Bettinelli
When I wrote that feature , Apple ’s prices were indeed downhearted than Crucial ’s . So the plebeian soundness — that RAM always be more from Apple than from other vendors — isn’t as vulgar as it once was . But Aries prices are volatile , so it ’s worth shop around.—Christopher Breen
Rough landings
Regarding your recapitulation of the new AirPort Extreme Base Station : why did you give it a rating of ? The fact that it has no Gigabit Ethernet ports should have knock off a full mouse . Other problems include the absence of an option for excluding 802.11b devices , and the style my AirPort Extreme crashes whenever I ’m doing a retentive download ; I have to readjust it physically just to get back on to administer it . To me , those flaws add up to another full mouse off . Not everything Apple make is awesome.—Alex Papayannis
Way-back machines
I like your article on what to do with old Macs ( “ New Life for Old Macs , ” April 2007 ) , but could you get a littleolderin your thinking ? A Mac that can go OS 10 10.4 is not anoldMac . Can you do an article on , say , a Quadra 660AV stuck at OS 8?—Mike Riess
The important ports
In your May 2007 issue , you have a very informative article about how to set up a secure VNC session through an SSH tunnel ( Geek Factor ) . It ’s mostly correct , except on one point : you say that if you have a NAT router , you need to use port forwarding on port 5900 and on port 22 for SSH . But if you ’re using SSH tunneling , you need to forward only one port — the SSH port 22 . To the remote waiter , it will look like connections are local . Setting up port wine forwarding for 5900 makes the remote VNC server approachable directly , which is n’t really a good idea.—Paul Linden
You are correct . Thanks for the clarification.—Rob Griffiths
The mighty fall
I had to express mirth when I take your May grueling - drive review ( One Drive Fits All ) . You said , “ [ SATA is ] here to stick around , and we ’ll be using it for year to issue forth . ” Just like SCSI , Zip , Jazz , and a long list of other quondam technology . As soon as another fast storage system egress , SATA will be as relevant as SCSI.—Bob Collins
Welcome to my shop
Many thanks to Jonathan Seff for his easy - to - follow pathfinder to converting video recording for the iPod and TV ( Playlist , May 2007 ) . As a huge invigoration buff , I ’ve been dying to rip my DVDs of the “ Looney Tunes Golden Collection ” to my Mac but was unsure of the proficient fashion to do it . Now I can look on Bugs Bunny give Elmer Fudd the haircut of a lifetime in “ Rabbit of Seville ” wherever I go.—Roger Hagy , Jr.
