Re: Virtualizing on MacBook Pro

2009-07-22 Thread Matthew Campbell
uot; > To: > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:04 PM > Subject: Re: Virtualizing on MacBook Pro > > >> >> 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

Re: Virtualizing on MacBook Pro

2009-07-22 Thread James & Nash
Thanks Matt. Can you run office 2003 okay though? Thanks james - Original Message - From: "Matthew Campbell" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:04 PM Subject: Re: Virtualizing on MacBook Pro > > Hey James. > I worked at a mac shop and the tech there told me t

Re: Virtualizing on MacBook Pro

2009-07-22 Thread Matthew Campbell
nse. 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" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:48 AM > Subject: Re: Virtualizing on MacBook Pro >

Re: Virtualizing on MacBook Pro

2009-07-22 Thread James & Nash
thanks Scott, I'll look into Bootcamp then - Original Message - From: "Scott Chesworth" To: 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 nove

Re: Virtualizing on MacBook Pro

2009-07-22 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This brings up an interesting question that I have been meaning to research. I have a copy of XP ready to install on a computer here. If I install in bootcamp, how easy is it to move to Fusion. Also, if I install in a VM can multiple users on the box have access to the XP (obviously not

Re: Virtualizing on MacBook Pro

2009-07-22 Thread Scott Chesworth
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 inte