Parallels, etc.

Once again, I am floored and astounded by the awesomeness of my Mac.
Shady has a very stable and user-friendly OS. His apps are first-
rate. And, for those old archaic things that I somehow still love,
as well as the newer stuff that simply isn't Mac, there's Parallels.
I just hooked up Soran (my old Handspring Visor Edge) to Windows XP
which runs inside Parallels which runs inside Mac OSX. It actually
works, and is hotsyncing to Outlook so now I've got a usable
calendar, to do list, notes, etc.

Now. I realize I'm already impressed by Macs and their apps. But.
Parallels. Is. So. Hot. It's got this hot new feature... several
of them in fact... I want the upgrade so badly... might be worth it
in fact... Transporter first of all. You can migrate your PC TO YOUR
MAC. Okay, get this. Seriously. You have a windows pc. You'd like
to use it as a VM instead, since Virtual Machines can be backed up as
files, so that way you can still use your pc in your mac (say you
have a macbook, and wanna take your mac and your pc with you at
once!)... man, it never ends... It just never ends... I am sooooooo
smitten... anywho, you install a little appy on the pc, and run
transporter in Parallels on your Mac, and whammo, do a few clickies,
and it copies the whole system (or whatever you checked if you did
advanced - that would likely be me) to a VM in Parallels.

Now, I can think of several uses for this little ditty. Little, ha!
Okay, here goes:
01. You want to move your pc to your mac. For whatever reason. Ah
ha! Transporter!
02. You've got some old legacy programs you want to keep, but you
want to ditch the pc. Ding! Transporter.
03. You'd like to grab an image of your pc just in case PC crashes.
W00t!! Transporter.
04. You just got a new MacBook Pro and you'd like to bring your "pc"
with you, too. DING DING DING!! TRANSPORTER!!

Now I realize I'm slightly happy from the Meade I've been drinking,
but correct me if I'm wrong... in addition to Coherence (which is
just so totally cool it's not even funny) and even Assistant...
SmartSelect, 3D... I mean, you can play GAMES ON THIS NOW...
Explorer... isn't this worth the $80??? I think SO!!

My friend Paul would have SO much fun pushing a Mac to its absolute
limits. I don't think he ever could, in fact. I know I got close on
Raven, but Windows XP itself, I'd probably reached halfway. I sorta
stopped short when I discovered portable apps. This... this... well,
this takes the cake and the pudding and the cheesecake and the filet
mignon all at once. Even the Earl Grey Tea and the Cioccolati
biscotti and the port wine cheese and... Yes, even Meade. It.
Just. Rocks. My ultimate endeavour is to get myself a MacBook Pro,
install the latest Parallels and all my other favourite apps, and
migrate Raven to it so I can use all my favourite Portables with the
MacBook while still getting the awesome benefits of the Mac OS -
friendly atmosphere, stability, power... Unix! I tell ya, there's
nothing better than a Mac...

Okay, I've gotta end this happily excited rant of positivity...

~nv