Mac Specs: 15" 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MBP w/4GB of Ram
Dare I Say It?
I gotta tell you. I have Windows 7 running as a guest on Snow Leopard via VMware Fusion and I must say, I'm really digging this Windows 7. By no means am I saying that I'm leaving my beloved OS X behind. I'm just sayin' tho.
I gotta tell you. I have Windows 7 running as a guest on Snow Leopard via VMware Fusion and I must say, I'm really digging this Windows 7. By no means am I saying that I'm leaving my beloved OS X behind. I'm just sayin' tho.
Sounds good to me. Windows users deserve to have a decent OS too! Which would also mean a decent OS for us Mac users to use as well!
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I gotta tell you. I have Windows 7 running as a guest on Snow Leopard via VMware Fusion and I must say, I'm really digging this Windows 7. By no means am I saying that I'm leaving my beloved OS X behind. I'm just sayin' tho.
That is good news as I am also a Windows user via Fusion on my MBP. I'm glad all three (OSX, VMware Fusion, Windows 7) are working great as I planning to migrate from XP to 7 on my virtual machine in within the next few months.
Mac Specs: 15" 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MBP w/4GB of Ram
@ Pigoo- Nothing wrong with having the best of both worlds!
@Sputacus- You definitely won't be disappointed. I have 4 gigs of RAM on my MBP and VMware allocates a gig to the VM and ~40 gigs of disk space by default. Right now, I have Pandora Jam, the Windows 7 Vm and Toast all running and I don't even hear my fans.
Activity Monitor reports that VMware is using just about .3% of my processors capacity.
Been running Win7 in a VM since the beta release - no question that this is the best Windows ever made, and what Vista should have been for MS. I think they will do well with it, and it's a good option for us Mac users as well via BootCamp or VMs. And it's been running very well in just 1 GB of allocated RAM - really amazing when compared to Vista.
You'll find many users running Windows in some capacity around here. Many of us are not Apple fan boys and have no problem running Windows in some fashion.
You'll find many users running Windows in some capacity around here. Many of us are not Apple fan boys and have no problem running Windows in some fashion.
I did a reinstall on the netbook of Windows 7. Haiku was nice for an Alpha but I need an OS on the netbook to do everything I do. Windows 7 is the finest running OS I have ever used on that Acer Aspire One. Very close is Open Suse 11, but the battery life is maybe 20 minutes longer in Win 7 for some reason! nice getting over 2 hours on the netbook!
Besides the netbook, I have a SLI Gaming Machine I built myself with XP SP3, a couple of Dell Worstations running XP SP3 for some video conversion, a back up XP Gaming machine in case and my AMD 64 Bit Laptop with Vista Ultimate.
So yes I run Windows here but on Windows machines! I like to keep my Macs OSX only! I really purchased the Macs for OSX.
And yes, I agree for some it's handy to have a notebook with both OSX and Windows for work, school and other uses. One machine to do it all.
Mac Specs: MacBook 2.1 Intel Core 2 Dou ; OS Snow Leopard.. 16G iPod Touch 3.0
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Originally Posted by dtravis7
So yes I run Windows here but on Windows machines! I like to keep my Macs OSX only! I really purchased the Macs for OSX.
What, so now MAC running on your labtop ??? Sorry couldnt refuse ..
Now im looking at a a cheap machine to solely run W7 now they have finally bought out a decent OS.
Havnt needed or been interested since Vista was such a dog. Will also double as a learning machine for my 6 yr old so in the coming years he doesnt get left behind. Every year that goes buy kids are needing some sort of computer at school age. Nice OS to get him going.
I did a reinstall on the netbook of Windows 7. Haiku was nice for an Alpha but I need an OS on the netbook to do everything I do. Windows 7 is the finest running OS I have ever used on that Acer Aspire One. Very close is Open Suse 11, but the battery life is maybe 20 minutes longer in Win 7 for some reason! nice getting over 2 hours on the netbook!
I'm surprised you lasted this long with Haiku. Don't get me wrong, it's a great OS but not everyday use ready. As for the openSUSE battery life, did you check the battery settings? They are two different OSes though so there could be many reasons for the battery life differences.
I always have an XP partition on my MacBook. I ran the beta of Windows 7 for a while. Worked well! I would happily move from XP to it. Never even bothered considering Vista, thankfully.
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Which would also mean a decent OS for us Mac users to use as well!
