Hi, For the majority of folks, The difference between the midlevel and high end processor won’t be noticed much. I would much rather spend my money on RAM and an SSD. The performance upgrade is noticeable, and immediate.
Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jul 15, 2013, at 10:50 AM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > Windows does a lot of disk read/write and folks I know who went with an SSD > seem to have things start up much faster. I generally try to overbuy on the > parts I can't upgrade as I keep my machines for a long time to justify the > cost (7 years or more). Today's high end is tomorrow's minimum bar. > > CB > > On 7/14/13 7:08 PM, Phil Halton wrote: >> I currently have an iMac with quad core I5 processor, 8gb ram, and 7200rpm >> HD. Running fusion5/win7 with Jaws I find it totally responsive, no lag at >> all. I guess that's why I'm so happy with windows in a virtual machine. And, >> I'm using the default fusion5 settings of 1 core and 2gb ram assigned to the >> VM. >> >> I'll most likely trick out the Air with 8GB and 256GB ssd. It's the >> processor I'm wondering about. My experience with hardware upgrades, >> especially processors, is that moving up one or two grades is worth the >> money, but moving up to the utmost upgrade generally doesn't return much for >> the money involved. So, I'll probably bump up the processor a bit from the >> base-line I5 1.3 GHZ. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Hogue" <harryhog...@gmail.com> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 1:45 PM >> Subject: Re: MacBook Air upgrade options >> >> >>> Hi Phil, >>> >>> I have only ever worked with a MacBook Pro running 4gb of ram and with >>> a 320 hard drive (not an SSD). From my experience, the virtual >>> machine setup with usable for tiems when you only want to run Windows >>> for a few minutes, in somewhat limited situations. What I have found, >>> however, is that after setting up Boot Camp on my computer, I see no >>> difference in performance whatsoever. I have been running my system >>> under Windows exclusively over the past week or so for school-related >>> things that I need Microsoft Word for, and it is though I were running >>> on a PC. I always found Fusion with Windows and JAWS, or any other >>> screen-reader, to be very sluggish, especially if I had other programs >>> running in the background, no matter how much I increased available >>> memory to the VM through Fusion settings. >>> >>> Now, this is only my opinion and thoughts, of course. It very well >>> may be that for most people this set up works perfectly fine. Indeed, >>> I made it work for me for around a year or so. However, for >>> day-to-day reliable performance, I found I needed Windows under Boot >>> Camp, and again, thank you to all on this list who helped me to >>> achieve that. Your patience was and is very kind and appreciated. >>> >>> I considered upgrading my RAM, etc. and certainly increased RAM may >>> help, but I'm not certain how much. I know that VoiceOver likes to >>> say "Busy, busy, busy" in programs sometimes, and I remember that I >>> have had the same issues with that as someone who had 2 gb of ram. >>> But ram is always supposed to be the biggest factor in immediate >>> increased performance. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Harry >>> >>> On 7/14/13, Phil Halton <philh...@comcast.net> wrote: >>>> I want to be able to run fusion/win7 on a macbook air with as little >>>> degradation of performance as possible. What would you think would be the >>>> minimum upgrades necessary to a Macbook Air 13 inch? I assume 8GB memory, >>>> 256 SSD, and a processor upgrade of some kind - what would the list >>>> recommend for processor? >>>> >>>> Also, what advantages do the Macbook Pro have over the Air? is it worth >>>> considering a Pro over an Air model? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
