Hello all: I have been running Windows 7 in Fusion along side OSX with 8 gigs of ram on a 2009 MBP, and it runs very well, even with several apps open in windows and OSX. The ram is certainly the main issue here, but I'm sure all the processor speed you can afford will have added benefits. I'm in the market for an MBA soon too, so good luck with your purchase. The SSD will certainly speed things up as well. On Jul 14, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Harry Hogue <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Phil, > > I have only ever worked with a MacBook Pro running 4gb of ram and with > a 320 hard drive (not an SSD). From my experience, the virtual > machine setup with usable for tiems when you only want to run Windows > for a few minutes, in somewhat limited situations. What I have found, > however, is that after setting up Boot Camp on my computer, I see no > difference in performance whatsoever. I have been running my system > under Windows exclusively over the past week or so for school-related > things that I need Microsoft Word for, and it is though I were running > on a PC. I always found Fusion with Windows and JAWS, or any other > screen-reader, to be very sluggish, especially if I had other programs > running in the background, no matter how much I increased available > memory to the VM through Fusion settings. > > Now, this is only my opinion and thoughts, of course. It very well > may be that for most people this set up works perfectly fine. Indeed, > I made it work for me for around a year or so. However, for > day-to-day reliable performance, I found I needed Windows under Boot > Camp, and again, thank you to all on this list who helped me to > achieve that. Your patience was and is very kind and appreciated. > > I considered upgrading my RAM, etc. and certainly increased RAM may > help, but I'm not certain how much. I know that VoiceOver likes to > say "Busy, busy, busy" in programs sometimes, and I remember that I > have had the same issues with that as someone who had 2 gb of ram. > But ram is always supposed to be the biggest factor in immediate > increased performance. > > Thanks, > > Harry > > On 7/14/13, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote: >> I want to be able to run fusion/win7 on a macbook air with as little >> degradation of performance as possible. What would you think would be the >> minimum upgrades necessary to a Macbook Air 13 inch? I assume 8GB memory, >> 256 SSD, and a processor upgrade of some kind - what would the list >> recommend for processor? >> >> Also, what advantages do the Macbook Pro have over the Air? is it worth >> considering a Pro over an Air model? >> >> -- >> 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/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > 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/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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/groups/opt_out.
