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<blockquote data-quote="normanio" data-source="post: 1174528" data-attributes="member: 186890"><p><strong>VM info</strong></p><p></p><p>Hello there. As for running A VM partition, I recently just upgraded to back the software smoothly and I tell you, buttery smooth. I'm on 13 MBP 2.66 C2D 240 Mercury Pro SSD, 8GB Ram SL 10.6.6 and Windows 7 64 bit. The VM itself is noticeable as it hogs RAM when tested. Now when allocating settings, I set 4 GB for each one of the partitions as them being for both SL&Win7.If you can spare some dough for an upgrade on ram I say go for it. best bang for the buck in that. As for running either VMWare or parallels 6 I have parallels and it's a money program. I like how in Parallels, you can set your appearance to either look like a PC or look like a Mac. Now with 8GB of ram total, the experience is very fast and responsive. On website Macsales.com, 8 GB ram DDR3 1067 4 per. went for $120. So worth it</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="normanio, post: 1174528, member: 186890"] [b]VM info[/b] Hello there. As for running A VM partition, I recently just upgraded to back the software smoothly and I tell you, buttery smooth. I'm on 13 MBP 2.66 C2D 240 Mercury Pro SSD, 8GB Ram SL 10.6.6 and Windows 7 64 bit. The VM itself is noticeable as it hogs RAM when tested. Now when allocating settings, I set 4 GB for each one of the partitions as them being for both SL&Win7.If you can spare some dough for an upgrade on ram I say go for it. best bang for the buck in that. As for running either VMWare or parallels 6 I have parallels and it's a money program. I like how in Parallels, you can set your appearance to either look like a PC or look like a Mac. Now with 8GB of ram total, the experience is very fast and responsive. On website Macsales.com, 8 GB ram DDR3 1067 4 per. went for $120. So worth it [/QUOTE]
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