> I'm POSITIVE, that the Microsoft Mac Business Unit has been slaving
> away at creating a new Intel-native version of VPC for Mac since Apple
> released the Developer Transition machines last year. I would be
> willing to bet that Microsoft already has compiled and complete
> versions of a new VPC for Mac that SCREAMS on a MacBook running Windows
> XP.

> I'm currently a professional Windows developer using .NET technologies
> among many many other things. Although I develop on Windows by day, I
> am a Mac user by night. Our family currently owns 4 OS X Macs at home,
> and I have been sitting around just waiting for the new Intel based
> Macs to hit the market.
>
> Why? Because owning an Intel based Mac now makes Virtualizing it and
> running Windows a breeze. With an x86 core, VPC will be able to run
> JUST AS FAST as it does on the Windows version, which is what I
> currently use at work! Yup, I run VPC for Windows at work for
> development, I have an external HD full of VPC images I switch back and
> forth between depending on my current consulting gig! I tried using VPC
> for my G4 based iBooks and PowerBooks but they were too damn slow for
> me to be productive. So, painfully, I took my Mac babies back home and
> just kept working on the company issued Dell.
>
> But now that these new Intel Macs are out, we need a new version of VPC
> that can run x86 natively! Oh my God! I'll chuck the Dell out the
> window and use my Mac with VPC for everything! I'll run OS X as my
> desktop, giving me access to my email, IM, etc., and run VPC for Mac
> with Windows XP /.NET the majority of the time in the foreground! Even
> better yet, I could plug an external Cinema Display into my MacBook
> Pro, and run a fast, compatible, VPC for Mac on my Cinema Display,
> while glancing back at my notebook screen for my OS X apps. Then, at
> the end of the day, I can save my Windows XP machine state and go back
> to my 100% OS X joy at home.
>
> I'm POSITIVE, that the Microsoft Mac Business Unit has been slaving
> away at creating a new Intel-native version of VPC for Mac since Apple
> released the Developer Transition machines last year. I would be
> willing to bet that Microsoft already has compiled and complete
> versions of a new VPC for Mac that SCREAMS on a MacBook running Windows
> XP.
>
> How about an announcement, Microsoft? When will we get our hands on the
> Intel-native version of VPC for Mac? I'm dyin" here! Gimme some
> water!!!
>
> I gaurantee that the new versions of VPC, with their resulting
> speed/compatibility improvements, will just serve to sell more copies
> of Microsoft operating systems to hungry Mac owners everywhere! Now is
> your chance!!! Take us all!!! Liberate me from DELL!!!!
>
> Pranakhan - MCSE.NET, MCAD, MSDN Universal Subscriber
>

> You guys are forgetting that this Intel chip was built from day 1 with
> virtualization in mind, so it should "scream". I would think you could even
> have 1 core running one environment and the other core running a second
> environment