no boot camp. Go for Parallels. works fine and you can swap between
OS without having to restart, as you would with boob camp.
clay
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On Jan 6, 2011, at 7:58 AM, Rich
I don't think there is a mac list on Okiebenz so I will annoy y'all with
this.
Task is to put some flavor of Windows on an iMac 3.2GHz Intel Core 13
4GB 1333 Mhz DDR3 Mac OSX 10.6.5
I have lots of stuff on my old XP box so I would like to import/install
some of these apps on the Macwindows
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Rich Thomas
richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote:
What flavor of windows thingie should I get? Looks like there is Boot Camp
for XP and some other stuff, but that is either/or. VMWare or Parallels
will run a window with windows (!!), so that seems like a
I use the boot camp and XP Pro. No complaints. A VM works but wants
LOTS of memory. I believe you can install your current XP on a VM
without problem. I'd sure never spend money on Winders 7 to run XP
apps.
I don't think there is a mac list on Okiebenz so I will annoy y'all with this.
Does windows want to go off and certify itself or something? Or if I
just load my XP (or make an SP2 update disk) will it run without all that?
--R
On 1/6/2011 11:12 AM, Dieselhead wrote:
I use the boot camp and XP Pro. No complaints. A VM works but wants
LOTS of memory. I believe you can
XP still wants to phone home (activate) I think you have 30 or 60
days. However in the past couple of years M$ seems to let it
activate itself without hassle, unlike the early days. I used to try
to phone in if I had time, just to cost them more resources for their
foolishness.
Don't try
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
A VM works but wants LOTS
of memory.
True, but that of course depends on what OS you want to virtualize. I
get along fine by running W2K under VMWare; it's happy with only 512
Mb. But then I'm only using it to run Office
I use VirtualBox from Sun (now Oracle).
http://www.virtualbox.org/
Free Open Source.
Works well to run Win7 on my Mac.
Allan
Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net writes:
I don't think there is a mac list on Okiebenz so I will annoy y'all
with this.
Task is to put some
BootCamp for XP, Parallels for pretty much anything else.
And yes, VM ware is free or cheap, but you better have your RAM maxed out or it
won't work for crap.
MacDann
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On Jan 6, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net
wrote:
I don't think there
