Parallels ... Mac and Windows

[kapovski]

Are you kidding me? Who the heck owns a single button mouse these days? Even Apple's own mighty mouse has two (ok more) clicks to it.

I'm really enjoying the comments re the mouse, mouses, mice, meece and mooses. My comment was a metaphor for her not having the patience to learn a new operating system.

 

[LandyMan]

Is bootcamp free? I'm adding up costs. Parallels plus Windows is about R3000 as far as I can tell.

You can get a Parallels license and Office for Mac (which includes a Windows XP license and disk) from me for R2500

And Parallels works really well. I work in a M$ environment, with Windows OS and Domain controllers as a requirement, and it worked like a charm on my MBP.

Other nice thing is that you need only dedicate a minimal amount of RAM to the VM (I used 512Mb) and it still outperformed a Dell with 2Gb of RAM

 

[bwana]

You can get a Parallels license and Office for Mac (which includes a Windows XP license and disk) from me for R2500

RAS

And Parallels works really well. I work in a M$ environment, with Windows OS and Domain controllers as a requirement, and it worked like a charm on my MBP.

Other nice thing is that you need only dedicate a minimal amount of RAM to the VM (I used 512Mb) and it still outperformed a Dell with 2Gb of RAM

Nice thing about VMware's fusion is that I've heard it supports multiple processors.

 

[LandyMan]

RAS

Hey, bugger off I am trying to help the guy out here

Nice thing about VMware's fusion is that I've heard it supports multiple processors.

Yes, that is true. It is a toss up between the two Virtual environments. Both works really well

 

[kapovski]

Hey, bugger off I am trying to help the guy out here

Lol @ Mac guys fighting amongst yourselves. I thought you only took on windows users.

 

[LandyMan]

Lol @ Mac guys fighting amongst yourselves. I thought you only took on windows users.

No no, in that instance it was mod vs. forumite

 

[byaru1]

I've read a bit about running wondiws on a Mac using parallels. Does anyone have first hand expeirence with this. Does it work? Does it work well? Is it easy to operate if you have basci PC literacy or is it a bit more complex.

I have a Macbook, 2.16GHz and 2GB RAM. I have used both Parallels Desktop 3.0 and Vmware Fusion 1.1 for running both Windows Vista Business and Windoze XP professional.

I highly advise that you use Vmware Fusion for either Vista or XP. While using parallels and windows vista, i practically am using 98% of the 2GB RAM, while the utilisation is at about 50% with Vmware. The other good thing with Vmware is that it uses both processor cores, which improves efficiency.

Best advise - go with Vmware Fusion 1.1 and Windows XP professional. You will never notice any sluggishness, you will think you are natively on a Windoze PC (from my experience)

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