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From: dorayme on 24 Apr 2010 21:07 In article <1jhg5ww.k7byzg18vmdq8N%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > > > Yes. You may think there are others, but there are not. > > > > How do you know this? Has a sudden omniscience been bestowed on > > you? Or has a sudden imperious and unfounded sense of authority > > and ability to read everyone's circumstances and mind suddenly > > infected you? > > I know the same way as you do - Lewis has spoken. OK, I read your post a different way soon after. You were being sarcastic or ironical or something. Carry on being so... I should have shurrup... Extra money is being sent to you this month. -- dorayme
From: Howard Brazee on 24 Apr 2010 21:18 On 24 Apr 2010 17:37:37 GMT, "John Varela" <newlamps(a)verizon.net> wrote: >It's noticeably faster than Parallels 4 when running OS/2. (And now >the clock works.) I haven't used it with Windows. Curious, what are you running OS/2 for? I have an OS/2 game that I would sort of like to run, but not enough to give up all that disk space. -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison
From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 24 Apr 2010 22:40 First, I would like to thank everyone who offered information in this thread. On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, James Sidbury wrote: > I tried the trial version of Parallels a few years ago and had problems > with it. Their tech support on the trial was so bad that i decided that > i would rather try Fusion. I later got a copy of Parallels at a really > good discount and used it on my MBP with a bootcamp partition and it was > OK but slow. I've used both Fusion 2.x and 3.0 on my MBP and mac pro > with bootcamp partitions and both seemed to be successful. My intuition > not based on rigorous testing is that Fusion is slightly faster at least > in the apps that I tend to use. In the end, I went with Parallels 5 because it was part of a well priced combo with Windows from Newegg. The suggestions of virtualbox looked interesting. I'm not sure to what extent virtualbox is "there yet" for my needs. I need to be testing things on Windows, and I need to be relatively confident that problems I experience aren't from the VM. (But I don't insist on this to the point of getting a whole other box, or worse, having to reboot.) From the comments, it looks like people's experience with Fusion is better than with Parallels. And in terms of price, virtualbox can't be beat. But given what was available a the time I had to make my decision, I went with Parallels. > As others have said, with Windows you need to worry about malware. I > used to be a big proponent of Avast! (and still like it) but recently > I've converted to Microsoft Security Essentials and have been quite > satisfied with it. At the college where I work they are officially > McAfee users (and thus were victimized with the problems yesterday) but > their network security expert, a former student of mine and a mac owner > as well, is also using Security Essentials on his Windows machines. Thank you. That seems like the right choice for what I've been reading. And the recent McAfee incident speaks for itself. No comment necessary. Also someone suggested running NTFS instead of FAT32. That seems extremely sensible. I also ordered another 4GB RAM (in addition to the 5GB already installed); so I'll have plenty to dedicate to the guest. I will not be doing any high-powered graphics for either gaming or astronomy, so running Windows as a guest OS should be fine. Performance isn't critical. Again, thank you all for your advice. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read top-posted, over-quoting or HTML postings. http://improve-usenet.org/
From: dorayme on 25 Apr 2010 01:44 In article <alpine.OSX.2.00.1004242130410.30443(a)olympe.ewd.goldmark.org>, Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote: > First, I would like to thank everyone who offered information in this > thread. Why are you discriminating against people like me who offered no help? Am I just some sort of football to be kicked around here or ignored? -- dorayme
From: Mike Rosenberg on 25 Apr 2010 12:15
Howard Brazee <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote: > Curious, what are you running OS/2 for? I have an OS/2 game that I > would sort of like to run, but not enough to give up all that disk > space. You don't have to give up a lot of disk space to run a virtual machine. -- My latest dance performance <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_9pudbFisE> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> |