Hey James. I worked at a mac shop and the tech there told me to use 768 mb or ram for xp. He said that he seems to get th best performance with that amount. I'm using fusion hear with 768 ram and I get not too bad performance but I wouldn't want to be running anything real intense.
Matt. On 22-Jul-09, at 8:57 AM, James & Nash wrote: > > thanks Scott, I'll look into Bootcamp then > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Chesworth" <scottcheswo...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:48 AM > Subject: Re: Virtualizing on MacBook Pro > > >> >> Hi James, >> >> Virtualising does the job for most things, although once the novelty >> wore off I started to find the slight lag in performance irritating. >> If I was doing something where I needed both OS's to be available to >> use simultaneously I used to split the ram right down the middle. >> For >> more intensive tasks in Windows where you're not also relying on >> Leopard being smooth to use I'd assign 1.5gb to Windows for the >> duration of what needed to be done. >> >> In the end however, I install boot camp and tend to use that for any >> remaining Windows stuff I need to do purely because the performance >> hit virtualisation had and the slightly better driver support in boot >> camp won me over. For me, most of what I'm in Windows for now is >> music/audio creation and editing, some fairly intensive stuff for any >> computer, so your mileage may vary. >> >> hth >> Scott >> >> On 7/22/09, James & Nash <james.austin1...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> This is a question for those on the list who use their MBps to run >>> Windows. >>> When I get my new Mac, I will need to run Windows for my new >>> potential >>> job. >>> How does the 2GB of RAM do the job and how much of the GD do you >>> generally >>> give up to the virtualization software? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> James >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
