Look. Windows XP Loading on a MacBook Pro with Parallels 6

I’m shaking my head right now. Tears are welling up in my eyes as my PC scrapes it’s fingers across the blackboard of the boot sequence. Grueling, especailly on a computer in major need of being kicked through a hard surface.

Jorge Rui, a SolidWorks user and Mechanical Engineer, is NOT experiencing the same feeling. He uses a MacBook Pro 17″ i5 with 4GB of RAM. He boots into Windows XP SP3 using the new Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac. It’s insanely fast and I’m sure you’ll enjoy seeing it and knowing how it’s happening.

What magic is this?
No magic. It’s a 7200RPM Solid State Hybrid Drive (See Lou’s comment below on this.) In particular the Seagate Momentus XT 500GB specially designed for laptops which claims an 80% speed increase over other 7200 SSD’s. You would think with being an SSD it would cost a lot, but this 2.75″ x 3.95″ beauty costs around US $130 for 500GB capacity. (See here on Amazon (aff))