I found these 2 great links showing the capabilities of Parallels Desktop(videos demo Included) and setup instructions. I hope this will answer all inquiries about Intel Mac Machine running windows OSs.

Hack Attack : Side-by-side Windows and Mac Os with Parallels

The next link is about Parallels Desktop's Coherence which allows Mac OS X and Windows fused together(Sort of). This functions enable Mac users to run Windows Based applications in OS X. Watch the video and You will Understand what i'm referring here.

Hack Attack : How to run Windows and Mac OS X apps side-by-side with Parallels

errr...
i already running Windows XP on Mac OS X on my macbook

But, to run side side by side is another story.

This post has been edited by wei: Dec 19 2006, 02:49 PM

N0eL,
I've enough to stuff to worry about, besides have no idea what's wrong with my stupid internet connection [ok, admittedly i'm having another crappy day!] so can't load the video [or maybe my patience is just running out]

Then again, I know who I can go to for help, right?

Noel,
I've played around with the Parallels installation n i dont dare to go online wit Parallels running cause i've no antivirus runnin in my machine... is it safe to go online unprotected while runnin both OSes?... if my a virus/spyware infects my windows, will it affect my OSX too? this is what puzzles me...

By right, I dont think that Windows viruses will go thru Mac Os since both running on different cores. But as u said, if run both side by side, we'll never know what will happen wont we?

Still, i do believe that Os X will not be infected by Windows Viruses/spywares. Else you'll see us running antiviruses and spyware prevention apps already.

parallels desktop rus windows OS side by side and does not need restart to boot windows so do my machine

Wei is referring to running windows apps with Mac OS X. Click on the second link or check out Parallels Desktop's Coherence function~!

Mac OS and Windows are in different platform of HDD format. Mac OS boots Windows OS as a Virtual Drive and Mac OS actually created a NTFS/FAT/FAT32 allocation for your Windows while Mac OS is running on their own HDD allocation. Those virus will attack Windows only and not Mac OS as Mac OS cannot allocate NTFS drive directly without any virtual drive

so, what "machine" you using? PC?
all intel macs required software emulation to run windows at the moment. parallels is my first choice.

erm...yeah...PC...as my Mac is a Mac and a PC

cool, i heard Austin said u just bought a Macbook.
all my frens are selling off their PC after they got the intel mac~

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/380461

i thought you already seen it?

very true... but on the other hand, my come from is that if we can install windows in a mac... then all of window's vulnerabilities can technically be installed too rite?

i'll try surfing tonitie... on the other hand, am so tempted to corrupt my windows partition with spywares, etc... it'd be interesting to see wat happens to OSX when my windows partition is screwed...

i knew it before that i even heard some story behind... hehehe, enjoy ur new machine.

wahhahahaha
so update?

no lar, so happen was helping Austin to push his Macbook and we chit chat a bit.

want to see my machine running Windows under Mac OS X? here it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g57nhKjRRs

babyk,

Running on Coherence huh? experience any lag? how's the overall performance so far? Seems good from the video. Everything is running quite smoothly..

erm...so far no lagging...hehe
haven't try with Photoshop CS2 on windows parallel with Mac yet