Winning this would be a good holiday present to me.

Ooh, that's pretty hawt. Yeah I might actually want that. Is Blizzard going to do rare flying mounts (I haven't been following the prizes you can get with the cards at all)?.

Um, Workstation for PC isn't free. (but player and server are).

That said, VMware Fusion is currently in beta. I've tested that Vista works under the Fusion beta. While, Parallels is post 1.0, I think VMware will bring a lot to the table when Fusion is released. The Fusion beta (imho) is already more stable than Parallels. And at least until it is out of beta, Fusion is free to try and use (I think the beta build expires in June or something).

I guess the only features that Fusion doesn't have are Boot Camp support. But now that Parallels has done it, I doubt that Fusion will release without that feature.

Well widescreen is nice because it makes (arguably) better use of the widescreen realestate on today's laptops and monitors.

That's basically the reason I use the mail widescreen hack on my MBP and not on my 4:3 display at home.

I would love this. would allow me to finally get rid of my old 15" tv. Also maybe in a couple months when I get a PS3, I'll be able to do gaming HD style!

#35

a) Just guiness. That's just eye candy and honestly anyone can add that. That said, I dislike the way Parallels does it.

b) Sure, it does mean space wasted, but that's what Shared folders are for! It allows you to store your data on the mac without any problem.

c) This is not virtualization, and neither parallels nor vmware would do this. You're looking for something like WINE. Look at CrossOver (basically a public/for profit packaging of wine). I hear they've done a fantastic job of doing this. You're asking for API and binary compatibility with a different OS than the one that the app was written for.

Re: Mac OS X in a virtual machine. This is mostly up to Apple. Apple restricts the use of OS X to being run on real mac hardware. There are some checks that prevent it running on non-mac hardware. (There is more information available on the interweb).

Until one of the companies is able to convince Apple that Apple should either open the platform, or give them access to these API's, OS X in a VM will be a legal impossibility (I've heard you can get the "hacked" versions running in VMs).

As far as DandD, it will not expose your Mac to anything malicious. You are actually _copying_ your files from the mac to the vm, rather than using the same copy. I'd imagine VMware's product will also support shared folders. After all, their other products do.

The best thing about USB support in VMware's product (over Parallels) is not USB2.0 (though that's nice). It's the fact that the VM will see products that my Mac doesn't recognize... at all! and work with them fine. I've had trouble with Parallels and some of my devices.

Parallels does have "to Market" going for them, that's for sure.

Dear Number 2 (clearly an unintended austin powers reference), Firefox's Ui is written using XUL (i think that was it), and that's what allows many of the extensions to work cross platform. If you notice that even though the rendering engine is the same, the extensions do not work in Camino. With Firefox Cocoa, they are attempting to integreate XUL and Cocoa, further so that Firefox looks like and acts like a real cocoa app, but without too much cocoa in there (unlike Camino, which is a cocoa app, using cocoa, and interface builder, and all the os x goodness under the hood).

gmoney:
Actually from looking at the pictures on the box, I think it doesn't look chrome on the box due to the print+picture. It looks to me that it actually has the same look, but the print+picture makes it look like it doesn't.

Tim/Gin:
I'm guess that you can, and will be able to use this on Cingular if you unlock it. Danger builds the Sidekick and has a deal with T-Mobile. You can in fact use the sidekick on other services, but you lose out on a lot of the services. With the BB Pearl/8100 it uses standard Blackberry services which are available on Cingular. That would be a guess though, but based on the fact that I have seen a cingular one unlocked and used on the t-mobile network without any problems before.