hi i am running fusion and windows 7 on 2010 imac. it is faster than my 1 gig of ram notebook. also i tried using bootcamp but i found it easier to use fusion because i can switch between mac and windows without reboot.
best On 3 Apr 2011, at 02:17, Charlie Bates wrote: > Hi Alex > > I am now running windows 7 through vmware on a 2008 iMac. I don't > think that it is very slow at all. The reason I went with the vmware > fusion route was because I wanted to be able to access my mac at the > same time. I have often wondered about whether it would be more snappy > to go with the bootcamp option but I havent gotten around to testing > it because i have never had any instances where vmware was too slow. I > do things like work on publisher documents and OCR scanning in > windows. I've never played games tho so i cannot comment on how good > that is in vmware. > > I don't believe voiceover works in vmware so you would need to install > jaws or whatever software you prefer, within the windows area. > > > Charlie > > On Apr 3, 10:05 am, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> Just a quick question. If I win the lottery and get a mac, I will want >> Windows on it to run things like audio games. I was told that vmware, >> which seemed like a perfect solution, is slower than native windows >> and is not a good solution due to its lack of speed. What have people >> found when running windows via a virtual machine as far as speed? How >> does it compare to bootcamp, and are there any problems with bootcamp >> that would make it a less-than-ideal solution? How do both compare to >> running windows natively? >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from GMail website) >> mehg...@gmail.com;http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
