Cheers Stuart, very helpful. I used to run Virtual PC7 on my PB, but it's not really an option anymore. I sometimes have to sit in meetings and on conference calls and work directly into Articulate. VPC was far too slow to allow me to do that effectively and, being self-employed, it doesn't pay to sit there looking a 'nana.
Looking like a new MB or MBP, phew! Darren On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Stuart Dunkeld <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] > > > > > > > > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
