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From: David Empson on 24 Feb 2010 05:51 M-M <nospam.m-m(a)ny.more> wrote: > In article <240220100247132411%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, > nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > > > > Will Parrellels work well on a Mac with 2GB's of RAM, > > > > no it won't. you *really* want at least 4 gig. > > WinXP works fine with 2GB. Win7 does not. It depends what you also want to run on your Mac at the same time, and which host operating system you are running. I found that with my "normal" set of frequently used Mac applications open, I wasn't able to comfortably run Windows XP in VMware Fusion on Leopard, with only 2 GB of RAM in the computer, of which 512 MB was allocated to the XP virtual machine. The Mac hit the swap files heavily while the virtual machine was open. It was much better after I upgraded the computer to 4 GB. Snow Leopard will probably be worse than Leopard, because it uses more memory to start with, hence even more reason to go for 4 GB. The alternative is to severely limit the amount of memory allocated to XP in the virtual machine (e.g. 256 MB or even 128 MB). The question then is how little memory you can allocate to XP and still have it perform well enough for the applications you are using in Windows. Another option is to quit most Mac applications while running the VM, which somewhat defeats the purpose of using a VM instead of Boot Camp. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: M-M on 24 Feb 2010 08:46 In article <jwolf6589-D13F5B.06031924022010(a)nntp.charter.net>, John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > > WinXP works fine with 2GB. Win7 does not. > > In boot camp only? XP works fine in VMWare with 1GB allocated to each OS. Win7 needs BootCamp if you only have 2GB. -- m-m http://www.mhmyers.com
From: Sara on 24 Feb 2010 11:06 In article <240220100247132411%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article <jwolf6589-77D323.02395224022010(a)nntp.charter.net>, John > <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > > > Will Parrellels work well on a Mac with 2GB's of RAM, > > no it won't. you *really* want at least 4 gig. It works here on a Mac with 2GB RAM. I've got 1.83GHz Intel Mini running Snow Leopard and I run Parallels with Win XP on (or should that be "in"?) it. > > > and once it is installed can I also use BootCamp if I desire? > > yes -- Sara Wishing the weather would cheer up
From: Sara on 24 Feb 2010 11:07 In article <jwolf6589-C730CB.06045924022010(a)nntp.charter.net>, John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > In article <220220102247198215%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, > nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > > > In article <jwolf6589-FF540B.22074122022010(a)nntp.charter.net>, John > > <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > > > > > So how would you compare this environment with? Is it more like Classic > > > or Sheep Shaver? Sheep Shaver can run OS 9 apps but in its own window > > > and emulator while Classic runs the apps within OSX. > > > > parallels and vmware are like virtual pc, but for intel macs only (and > > virtual pc won't run on intel macs). since there is no emulation with > > either one, windows apps run at essentially full speed. you can run > > windows apps within a window, full screen, or interleaved with native > > os x apps (coherence and unity modes). > > In 2GBs of RAM? Yes. I do that every working day. -- Sara Wishing the weather would cheer up
From: nospam on 24 Feb 2010 11:34
In article <saramerriman-5F5F4A.16062224022010(a)news.individual.net>, Sara <saramerriman(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > > > Will Parrellels work well on a Mac with 2GB's of RAM, > > > > no it won't. you *really* want at least 4 gig. > > It works here on a Mac with 2GB RAM. I've got 1.83GHz Intel Mini running > Snow Leopard and I run Parallels with Win XP on (or should that be > "in"?) it. it works but it doesn't take much to thrash. if you quit all apps on the mac and keep the memory allocation low on the windows side, you can probably get away with it. but why limit yourself? memory is cheap, and unless your mini is one of the old core duo ones (not core 2 duo), it can go to at least 3 gig (or more if it's a current model). |