Be sure to check out Dave Shea’s virtual machine tips to make your Parallels experience the highlight of your day. Parallels - While dual booting is great for getting the most out of Half Life 2, Virtualization might be a bit more convenient for developers looking to see if their CSS is going to hold up in IE without having to restart their computer everytime.
You’ll need a copy of XP for this one and it’ll probably be the smoothest XP installation you’ll ever experience. For those of you out there looking to get Internet Explorer up and running on your shiny new Intel Mac, I’ve gathered all the options I could find to bring Microsoft’s favorite bad boy to your favorite development environment.īoot Camp - If you like to turn things on and off for a change, Boot Camp is Apple’s beta software to help make your switch to a mac feel comfortable and safe. Web Developers are getting really excited about how easy it now is to develop across browsers thanks to Apple’s Intel chip switch.
