May 9th, 2007
Another Parallels-Vista success story
I've been evaluating the Nokia N95 (review coming shortly on this power-packed device and its perfect companion, the N800 Internet Tablet) for about a week now and have been fighting with Nokia's PC Suite on the Lenovo X60t Tablet PC trying to get a just-released firmware update performed. No dice. In a fit of pique, I decided to load PC Suite on my Vista machine on the MacBook and… you can probably guess the moral of this story, right?
That's correct… the update was performed flawlessly in Parallels-Vista.
I'm inclined to blame it on the Symantec "protection" installed on the Lenovo (which I've been running through its trial period out of some sort of perverse fascination with pegging the Core Duo processor for no good reason I suppose). It's about the only significant delta between my setup on the Tablet PC and in my Parallels-Vista machine (where I'm running Microsoft OneCare). Frankly Scarlett… I don't give a damn. Just glad the update has been applied and I can get on with the much more enjoyable task of playing with this new bauble. But, knowing how much some of you enjoy these small ironies, I couldn't resist sharing.
Marc Orchant has been building, testing, and sometimes breaking hardware and software for 25 years. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
