Why did you decide to install bootcamp?
On Nov 20, 2007, at 6:58 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
Hi all,
I thought some might find interesting the experiences I've gained by
installing and attempting to use fusion on my imac and macbook. I
decided
after going through this that fusion and most likely paralells is
not for
me.
I first installed it on my Macbook using bootcamp as the virtual
machine.
After a lot of trial and error, I realized that I was not going to
get jaws
activated nor was I going to settle the video intercept issue. I
have to
day though that I was favorably impressed with the ease of use and
accessibility of the vmware interface considering the complexity of
the job
it has to do .
I then proceeded to install it on my Imac this is a core2 duo
2.16ghz system
with 3gb of ram and an 500gb hd. Again, I was impressed with the
interface
and also on both the speed of the final product although I didn't
perform
any heavy tasks. I was not impressed though by the number of
drivers I had
to reinstall and that I had to reinstall them each time I shut down
and
restarted the vm. I guess without jaws in the mix, and a bit of
tinkering,
this could be a good solution. I only tried it ow because I needed
a more
efficient environment in which to work, but I'll settle for two
computers
one for the windows side of the project and the other for the Mac
side of
it.
Lastly, be warened, you will find your self having to reactivate
windows if
you use fusion after installing windows through bootcamp and if you
decide
you want to just boot into windows directly, another activation and
then if
you want to use fusion again, another activation...
