Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]the good thing is you can download them and run both as trials and see how they actually run. i made a boot camp partition and installed XP, and the new versions of parallels and vmware both can boot off the partition. the nice thing is you don't need to install windows 3 times. i was trying out one of those directx PC games and neither emulator worked quite successfully, but parallels was much better at those parts that did work. you had to turn on experimental directx9 support on the emulators. only under bootcamp were you actually able to play the game. -rei On Apr30 17:19, Christopher Williams wrote: > 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 > >> > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Leica Users Group. > >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey