So far so good, don't jinx it with probing questions.
You are no fun at all.
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Fusion has worked fine for me on a MacBook Pro running with 2 Gb of
RAM with Windoze XP installed. I don't run games in Windows which I
understand can be a major game changer on RAM needs however.
At 1:45 PM -0600 3/28/09, Fred Jones wrote:
Fred Jones fredjone...@softhome.net
Subject: VMWare
Fusion has worked fine for me on a MacBook Pro running with 2 Gb of
RAM with Windoze XP installed. I don't run games in Windows which I
understand can be a major game changer on RAM needs however.
My worry with such virtualization software is that it excessively patches
the base Mac OS in
for both Fusion and Parallels, but Virtual
Box sounds like it's worth checking out first!
Thanks for your help.
From: Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com
Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009 08:19 am
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] VMWare Fusion or Parallels? and RAM
Fusion has worked fine for me on a MacBook Pro running
I initially created a BootCamp partition and installed XP within
that. Only after that was running properly did I venture into
installing Fusion and the Fusion virtual system was directed to
utilize the preexisting BootCamp installation. I have no idea if
that makes for a more stable virtual
I just bought a 13 inch Macbook (the 2.4GHz model).
Lauren thinks you are not cool. Are you feeling deprived?
I need to run a few Windows programs so I guess I will
need VMWare Fusion or Parallels.
I checked the reviews on Amazon and Fusion had better reviews, but the Mac
Genius at the Mac
At 1:45 PM -0600 3/28/09, Fred Jones wrote:
I just bought a 13 inch Macbook (the 2.4GHz model). The Macbook came
with 2GB of DDR3 Memory. I need to run a few Windows programs so I
guess I will need VMWare Fusion or Parallels. Could you guys please
let me know if one of those programs would be
I like VirtualBox from Sun. It works really well, and it's FREE!
http://virtualbox.org
Oh yes that one. I don't know anybody using it. MacWorld's review says it
is slow with OpenGL stuff and has an ugly interface. You centainly won't
be losing anything by testing it. Parallels has a 30-day demo
