Thanks Matt. Can you run office 2003 okay though? Thanks
james ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Campbell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:04 PM Subject: Re: Virtualizing on MacBook Pro > > Hey James. > I worked at a mac shop and the tech there told me to use 768 mb or ram > for xp. He said that he seems to get th best performance with that > amount. I'm using fusion hear with 768 ram and I get not too bad > performance but I wouldn't want to be running anything real intense. > > Matt. > On 22-Jul-09, at 8:57 AM, James & Nash wrote: > >> >> thanks Scott, I'll look into Bootcamp then >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Scott Chesworth" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:48 AM >> Subject: Re: Virtualizing on MacBook Pro >> >> >>> >>> Hi James, >>> >>> Virtualising does the job for most things, although once the novelty >>> wore off I started to find the slight lag in performance irritating. >>> If I was doing something where I needed both OS's to be available to >>> use simultaneously I used to split the ram right down the middle. >>> For >>> more intensive tasks in Windows where you're not also relying on >>> Leopard being smooth to use I'd assign 1.5gb to Windows for the >>> duration of what needed to be done. >>> >>> In the end however, I install boot camp and tend to use that for any >>> remaining Windows stuff I need to do purely because the performance >>> hit virtualisation had and the slightly better driver support in boot >>> camp won me over. For me, most of what I'm in Windows for now is >>> music/audio creation and editing, some fairly intensive stuff for any >>> computer, so your mileage may vary. >>> >>> hth >>> Scott >>> >>> On 7/22/09, James & Nash <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> This is a question for those on the list who use their MBps to run >>>> Windows. >>>> When I get my new Mac, I will need to run Windows for my new >>>> potential >>>> job. >>>> How does the 2GB of RAM do the job and how much of the GD do you >>>> generally >>>> give up to the virtualization software? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> James >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>>> >> >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
