Safari for Windows : Browser for Mac and … Windows
Apple just announced Safari for Windows, a free beta. Jobs showed some benchmarks of Safari rendering HTML and running JavaScript twice as fast as IE, and faster than Firefox. It renders in Windows the same as on a Mac, this’ll make it easier for web developers to test how a site looks in Safari without buying one.
As Apple claims, “The fastest web browser on any platform, Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2.”
The things I noted “cool” were the soft fonts just like in a mac. Indeed, they were really soft, the web page looks more like viewing an image. And a bit better speed. I did have a small problem though, while posting a long entry on one my blog, it just posted just 1 paragraph. I had to use Firefox to post it. :/
Forum junkies got a new topic to start - “Which is better ? Firefox, IE7, Opera or Safari ?? ”
So, Will you switch?
Playing PC games on Mac OS X, Coming Soon with VMWare and Parallels!
This must be a huge relief for Mac users ! A video shows VMware running Windows games at full speed from within Mac OS X. Regis Duchesne, a developer at VMWare confirms that there are internal beta builds of the program that support DirectX 8.1 virtualization and they are working on DirectX 9 support and therefore, compatibility with Windows Vista’s Aero interface technology. Mac users will be able to run Windows games at full speed from within Mac OS X. Since VMWare’s primary competitor, Parallels - has also promised to implement DirectX virtualization into Parallels Desktop.