Hi Malcolm, 1. Memory: 8 or 16 Gb of RAM? I think the latter forces my hand on the > MacBook Pro vs. Air? I'm thinking 8 Gb min in order to run the > occasional VM. >
8 GB is fine if your VM doesn't have more than 2 GB of RAM configured. RAM is a lot impacted by how many web sites you have open. Chrome and Safari eat RAM like candy. Right now I've one tab open in Chrome with the GMail interface and Activity Monitor reports roughly 500 MB just for Chrome. > 3. VM software: Parallels, VMware, other? Ideally I would like to > virtualize my existing Win 7 environment and have it available on a > limited use basis. > Try both. Both have a 30 day money back guarantee and you can convert machines either way. I like Parallels more, but have switched to VMWare, because it's easier to move around virtual machines. If you store your virtual machines on an external drive that is formatted in HFSP, you would need something like MacDrive to mount them in Windows. Note sure if there's a Linux driver for HFSP. > 6. Anything else? > Most people don't like the idea, but I do most of my development via RDP. The actual development machines are hosted on an ESXi server and my Mac is often only a terminal to the development machine. It puts less load onto the client so that batteries last longer. The server is real server hardware which is a lot faster than a laptop. It's easy to switch from client to client when batteries are empty or a larger screen is needed without terminating the current development session. -- Christof --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cal4qjhhvrfn40hegjpgkqrbwdog-hhvcytp6wczdr-psg8e...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
