Yeah there's a lot I use windows fore. for one thing safary crashes at my colledge blacbord thing and for another I'm too used to goldwave and spl studio and sonar and I must have klango. *grins* On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:55 AM, James & Nash wrote:
> Why do you want to use Windows? Is there something that you're not able to > accomplish with Mac OS X? Just curious, perhaps it is something that the list > can help you with. > > TC > James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny > On 30 Apr 2010, at 19:44, Chris Blouch wrote: > >> I haven't played much with Win7, just XP under fusion. Just after booting it >> does seem to beat on my hard drive for a few minutes making Jaws stutter, >> but that clears up shortly. So if you gave 2GB to Win7, how much is left for >> OSX? 2GB? >> >> CB >> >> Sarah Alawami wrote: >>> I tried running 7 u8nder 512 mb of ram and it hurt totally. jaws studered >>> and it sounded owful. Here it is under 2 gigs. Sorry about the bad quality. >>> I had to plug in another osund card just to here the thing. >>> >>> >>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1672188/vmware%20fudge%20up.mp3 >>> >>> >>> I ran 32 gigs and had about 2 gigs left for the ram. the windows run under >>> 2 gigs 1 core. I have a dool core processer. Vocie over was still fine. >>> On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> As you discovered VMWare is pretty much the only accessible virtualization >>>> package on the mac. Sun's VirtualBox doesn't have an accessible GUI but it >>>> does have a command line interface, so it can still be used that way. As >>>> far as speed and performance goes, Windows beats on the hard drive a good >>>> bit so it can take a while to un-sludge after starting up, especially if >>>> your Mac is trying to access the drive at the same time. Also need to >>>> check how much RAM you have left. My MacBook has 3GB so if I run 1.5GB for >>>> VMWare that only leaves 1.5GB for the Mac. If the Mac runs out it starts >>>> doing 'virtual memory' which swaps older chunks of RAM to the hard drive >>>> which is orders of magnitude slower than real RAM. So, if your Windows >>>> virtual machine pounds the hard drive and you trigger some virtual memory >>>> swapping to hard drive you're in for a world of hurt. You might actually >>>> be faster with that 512MB virtual machine and not triggering memory >>>> swapping. >>>> >>>> CB >>>> >>>> Sarah Alawami wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hello. I decided to try parelells and found it to be inaccessibal with >>>>> mac voice over. if it is can someone shead some lite on this? this is >>>>> driving me nuts! >>>>> >>>>> Thaks. >>>>> >>>>> S >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 >>>> . >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
