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Subject: [Leica] Re: OT: Using Parallels on Mac?
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)
Date: Wed Apr 30 15:19:53 2008
References: <022701c8aafd$41f87970$0302a8c0@MacPhisto> <D2CC0534-6D65-4A13-9723-6CD2356D19DF@aotera.org>

Thanks guys. Apple's website has rave user reviews on VMWare.

Chris



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Spencer Cheng" <scheng@aotera.org>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Using Parallels on Mac?


> I've been using Parallels for a year and half. Used VirtualPC before  
> switching to Parallels when I went from a PowerBook to a MacBook. Good  
> for things like MS Office but really not that great for CPU and memory  
> intensive applications like Photoshop for 2 reasons: high memory usage  
> and Parallels can only use 1 CPU core. I use it mainly for running  
> QuickBook.
> 
> VMWare might be a better solution if you need to run CPU intensive  
> applications since it can use both CPUs and I think it might be a bit  
> more memory efficient.
> 
> You can download and try both package from their respective websites.
> 
> Regards,
> Spencer
> 
> On Apr 30, 2008, at 16:03, Christopher Williams wrote:
> 
>> Anyone using Parallels on their Macs? I may be getting a Macbook and  
>> thinking about running Windows on it for some work software that  
>> does not yet have Mac support. I'm just assuming Parallels is the  
>> program to get. I know there are others such as Boot Camp.
>>
>> I plan on running XP and not Vista.
>>
>> I'm enjoying my iMac so much I really don't want to buy any more  
>> PCs. Yes, I could run Parallels on my iMac but it's just for  
>> processing/editing images and would prefer to leave it that way.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Chris
>> NOLA
>>
> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka) ([Leica] Re: OT: Using Parallels on Mac?)
In reply to: Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams) ([Leica] OT: Using Parallels on Mac?)
Message from scheng at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng) ([Leica] OT: Using Parallels on Mac?)