See, this is what I was thinking--particularly as pertains the CPU. Am I right in assuming that OS X is generally lighter on resources than Windows?
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Jeff Greene <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > I always believe more memory is a good investiment. I have a 2012 > non-retina mbp that I upgraded to 16gb ram and a samsung ssd. It runs > windows fine either via bootcamp or fusion 7. Also I use sharp keys from > randyrants.com to remap tilde to insert. I also remap ] to an > applications key. So to summ up don’t worry too much about the processor > all modern quad-cores are up to what you want, but go for the 16gb ram! You > won’t be disappointed. > Jeff > > On May 29, 2015, at 9:57 PM, Chris Meredith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings. > > I'm looking to finally upgrade my (ancient) late 2011 MacBook Pro. Assume > for a moment that the unit will need to occasionally run Windows under a > VM, in order to support Visual Studio, Xamarin .NET development for iOS/Mac > OS X, and the ability to connect back to a Mac for debugging. Ideally, the > Mac that the Windows VM connects to wants to be the Mac on which it runs. > Would the preconfigured models have the specs to do what I"m asking, it > would it be worth customizing (adding more RAM, etc.)? What are folks > running that are using Fusion to run Windows virtual machines? > Also, how are folks getting around the fact that Windows screen readers > pretty much all use Caps Lock as a modifier, which Fusion never gets from > the operating system? > > Thanks, > Chris > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
