Parallels 8 question re Win 7 & MS Office 2010

[Cassady]

Hello all,

Want to set up all of the above. Have an idea of how much data I will be bringing to the table, but have no clue what size would be taken up by Win 7 and Office. Anyone done the same, who can give me an idea of the minimum size? Would 64gb be sufficient?

 

[Cassady]

Aw shucks. Reformulated my googling question - see MS suggests 16gb for Win 7 and 3gb for Office 2010 - and then recommend about 40gb in total. That sound about right?

 

[[)roi(]]

Aw shucks. Reformulated my googling question - see MS suggests 16gb for Win 7 and 3gb for Office 2010 - and then recommend about 40gb in total. That sound about right?

Perfect starting point, but either way it's fairly easy to expand and compress afterwards.

 

[Cassady]

Perfect starting point, but either way it's fairly easy to expand and compress afterwards.

Thanks [)roi(]

Just ordered a Nifty Minidrive. About to order a 64gb SD - going to try it out on there, to see if it's at all workable, performance wise - hence the question.

Will pop something up here when I've found out!

 

[[)roi(]]

Thanks [)roi(]

Just ordered a Nifty Minidrive. About to order a 64gb SD - going to try it out on there, to see if it's at all workable, performance wise - hence the question.

Will pop something up here when I've found out!

That should work fine, but you most likely won't be breaking any speed records, well that is unless you have 2013 Mac and one of these http://www.pcworld.com/article/2044467/toshiba-to-sell-worlds-fastest-sd-cards-this-year.html