“The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway: Day 23 – Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac
This contest is closed. Congrats to faithful Macenstein reader Gregg.
On the Twenty-Third Day After Christmas, Macenstein gave to you (or, more accurately, gave you a chance to win…) Your very own copy of Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac!
Sure, we all love Apple and the ease of OS X, but sometimes there’s things you just can’t do on a Mac – like run the latest games, business software, and viruses. But who wants to go through all the trouble of partitioning their drive and rebooting into Boot Camp? When you HAVE to use Windows, you want to get in and out QUICK, and there’s nothing quicker than Parallels 5 for Mac. Optimized for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and boasting unmatched virtual machine performance, Parallels 5 lets you launch thousands of Windows apps directly from the Mac Dock. Best of all, Parallels lets you show as much or as little of the Windows interface as you like, so your friends won’t even know you’re running Windows, thus preserving your Mac Street Cred.
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261lbs.
221lbs! That’s my last word!
between 210 and 220.
Between 12 and 14 Hermann-Miller chairs!
Steve Ballmer weighs about 2.3 times as much as Steve Jobs
couple hundred boxes of windws 7. that’s a measurement of weight, right?
250
about 111 kg
I’m gonna have to say probably around 245.
230
hmm… guess about 114,3 kg 🙂
does that include all the hot air?
115 kg (253 pounds). Give or take a few. Probably give.
205 lbs plus about 50 lbs of bs.
210 lbs!
250 lbs.
236 sans garments, not that I want to ever, ever, see him that way.
150kg
pre-sweat 217… post-sweat 216.5…
Exactly twice as Steve Jobs?!
Over 9000 turds.
I’ll go with 237 lbs.
180lbs! One Parallels for me please!
223.7 lbs
15 stones
666 ounces
lets go with 191
The dude’s gotta be at least 250 lbs. but sure is light on his feet doin’ his Developers’ Dance. If he did that everyday he’d be giving Jobs some competition in the weight division.
300kg
I like the Vista Code comment….
I think he weights about 210.
About 250 lbs. and that’s just his head!
Too much.
250 lbs.
i am gonna say 205
240 lbs
212lbs
I’d say 245 lbs
270, all brains.
I’d go with 240 lbs, including his fat head
210
100000100 pounds. Maybe 100000101. Depends on how many bits he’s had for breakfast.
100kg
He weights 231lbs.
212
227 pounds
198 pounds
I’ll guess 130 kg
Enough for a gastric bypass….
The weight of about 80 MacBook Air’s, specifically the weight of the MacBook Air that Ballmer slammed into a guys lap at a conference.
111kg