Hi Darren > Does anyone here have anyone experience of running Adobe's e-learning suite > (most importantly Captivate and Presenter) and the Articulate apps on an > intel mac? Either through Boot Camp or virtualisation like Parallels?
I've never run those apps, but I run Visual Studio and SQL Server and the usual Windows development kit on Boot Camp and using VMWare (I used to use Parallels but switched to VMWare as it's that bit more stable) These are my observations: - It works extremely well. Install is easy, all the drivers 'just work', performance is generally excellent. VMWare (touch wood) never crashes on me, and I leave it running all the time. - XP uses a lot less memory than Vista and will happily run in a VM with 1GB of RAM allocated. Vista needs more, and 64bit Vista is very memory hungry indeed. The beta of Windows 7 worked surprisingly well in just 1GB of RAM. - Generally, you don't need to boot into Windows but it's nice to have it as an option, so setting up a Boot Camp partition is worthwhile unless you're completely sure you will never need to boot into Windows. - This is on both an iMac and a MacBook. There is another option: run Virtual PC / Mac on your G4. If the apps you want to use aren't particularly memory- or graphics-intensive you may be able to get away with it: cheaper than buying a new Mac but not as shiny :) Note that Virtual PC doesn't support connecting directly to USB devices, if that's something you need. Cheers --stuart On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Darren Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > HI all, > > Much as I love my old G4 Powerbook, I now need to run some windows-only > apps. I don't want to have to buy a windows machine, so I'm asking... > > Does anyone here have anyone experience of running Adobe's e-learning suite > (most importantly Captivate and Presenter) and the Articulate apps on an > intel mac? Either through Boot Camp or virtualisation like Parallels? > > I'm hoping for some nice positive replies here, I don't want a dirty windows > machine ruining my office. > > Cheers > Darren > > -- > Darren Morgan > [email protected] > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" 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/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
