The Macbook is a 2 gig RAM, Dual core whatever they built last year model. XP feels like XP, Ubuntu feels like Ubnutu -- like on a slightly down model PC. I'm playing with the virtual PC settings a little - I have them pretty minimal like 1 processor, 1 gig ram to start - very, very usable.
New business is coming from Mac clients switching, and most of them are buying 4 gig / Imac's -- and Parallels is frequently bundled in the deals so they can run stuff like MS Office or whatever without having to buy new licenses. Vista & Win 7 are supported, but I'm too cheap to pony up $200 for a retail Vista, and I don't have time right now to mess with beta o/s'...I suspect I'll need to bump my RAM on the Mac to make that work, and not sure about the eye candy. On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:15 AM, johnf <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 28 February 2009 09:09:54 am Dan Means wrote: > > Parallels is the vm manager of choice for Macs. I've set up a Ubuntu > 8.04, > > Ubuntu 8.1, and Win XP virtual machine - all run just fine. I'm > > experimenting with the xp side using "coherence" -- which makes the > windows > > apps run on the Mac desktop as if it was a native app - it's a trick of > the > > vm. > > > > All the binaries in Ubuntu work as always, download synaptic packages > etc. > > just fine - this is really slick technology. > > You don't notice any slowing? What do you have for a CPU? What about > Vista? > Window's 7? > > -- > John Fabiani > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
