IE8 for Macintosh?

[adiment]

Why not just use a VM like Parallels or VMware Fusion?

They both have modes to integrate into the UI, its a lot faster than going the free wine route. Lots of people run it for things like exchange support in MS Office 2007 (08 is terrible).

[davidnix71]

You can, but then you need to buy Windows to run on it. The last link I posted tells how to convert a VPC image (free from MS) into a format that can be run under Parallels or VMWare directly, without having to buy Windows.

[worker201]

Parallels and VMWare aren't free either.  Neither is very expensive, but still a fuckload more than I would be willing to pay to play with IE.

Anyway, the point was to run IE8 on a Mac, running it through a vm is cheating.

But I have a question about Parallels and VMWare.  Will they use separate cores?  Or separate processors?  Do they thread?  Do they "nice"?  If I had a dual Xeon MacPro, would it run both OSes on separate processors?

[davidnix71]

Parallels will use up to 4 procs and VMWare 2.

http://www.macmall.com/macmall/promotions/custom5~p~BootCamp1.1orParallels.asp

They are apps, so you can renice if you want to.

[worker201]

Does Parallels work well?  It would be way cool to install random Linuxes every week.

My specs:
MacBookPro 15"
Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz
2GB RAM
200GB HD @ 7200rpm (50GB free)

[adiment]

Does Parallels work well?  It would be way cool to install random Linuxes every week.

My specs:
MacBookPro 15"
Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz
2GB RAM
200GB HD @ 7200rpm (50GB free)

Should work fine. You can choose cores, ram, space, etc. I prefer Parallels to Fusion.