I’ve just started being a beta tester for Mailplane, and it seems pretty cool.
The only things I’d like to see:
That’s after a couple of hours of playing, including some time stripping out redundant features using CSS, which is kinda nice.
If you weren’t paying attention, today was a big day in terms of running Windows on a Mac. Boot Camp was upped to beta 1.3, and will be included in Leopard. VMWare Fusion went to beta 4, and Parallels was bumped to version 3.
I’ve only finished downloading Parallels, with the single aim of getting Eve Online working with this virtualisation system. I have managed to get it working well in Boot Camp 1.2, and Cross Over Office, but couldn’t get VMWare Fusion to work on my Hackintosh. I’ll try with the newer version when that finishes.
So, after installing Parallels 3, I’ve played a little bit with Eve Online.
And was very disappointed. It runs, granted, after turning on DirectX, which took me a while to figure out (you have to stop the virtual machine and edit it’s settings). But it’s way slower than CrossOver Office, which is almost realtime. And the graphics are very screwed up. Like every progress bar having white blocks, and unless you are in full-screen mode you can’t click on stuff properly, the mouse pointer just doesn’t line up.
It’s a while away from being usable for playing Eve in any way shape or form.
I didn’t notice this anywhere else on the net, but when I started downloading the latest Boot Camp beta, I got this response:
Thank you for your interest in Boot Camp and for downloading the Boot Camp Beta software. We hope you enjoy evaluating this software and appreciate your comments and suggestions. Boot Camp is just one of many new features in Mac OS X Leopard, the next major release of Mac OS X, due in October 2007.
The bold text is the bit that appeared new to me.
