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So Many (quick) questions before switching to a Mac (please help)
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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 415910" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p>I can answer the Parallels on a Macbook. I'm finding that I'm probably going to want to upgrade to 2GB of RAM if I'm going to be doing Parallels stuff. It runs the apps that I use it for reasonbly well, but there is a bit of a lag when I first bring it up. I usually have a VM suspended at any given time and when I 'wake it up' theres a short period where things kind of dog down a bit as resources are allocated to it. For example if I switch to Safari or something of that nature I'll get a 'beachball' (that's Mac OS X's way of telling you "hold on man, I'll get to it in a minute") until everything is finally 'up' and I can start launching things.</p><p></p><p>Once that's done though, it's like sitting at my Dell running XP. I used it quite extensively at this conference I was attending when I didn't want to lug the Dell with me to use the Corporate apps. If switching around it still kind of dogged a bit on the Mac side though, hence the need for an additional gig of RAM. So if you're going to do a lot of Parallels stuff, get the 2Gig.</p><p></p><p>As for the hardware, Parallels supports the USB ports, built-in bluetooth (but it does 'steal' it away from Mac OS X, so if you're using a bluetooth keyboard/mouse they'll quit working when you boot up the VM), the CD drive, and video camera. I'm pretty sure it does NOT support the firewire port at this time. The wireless network is virtualized and will work over whatever the Mac is connected to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 415910, member: 9385"] I can answer the Parallels on a Macbook. I'm finding that I'm probably going to want to upgrade to 2GB of RAM if I'm going to be doing Parallels stuff. It runs the apps that I use it for reasonbly well, but there is a bit of a lag when I first bring it up. I usually have a VM suspended at any given time and when I 'wake it up' theres a short period where things kind of dog down a bit as resources are allocated to it. For example if I switch to Safari or something of that nature I'll get a 'beachball' (that's Mac OS X's way of telling you "hold on man, I'll get to it in a minute") until everything is finally 'up' and I can start launching things. Once that's done though, it's like sitting at my Dell running XP. I used it quite extensively at this conference I was attending when I didn't want to lug the Dell with me to use the Corporate apps. If switching around it still kind of dogged a bit on the Mac side though, hence the need for an additional gig of RAM. So if you're going to do a lot of Parallels stuff, get the 2Gig. As for the hardware, Parallels supports the USB ports, built-in bluetooth (but it does 'steal' it away from Mac OS X, so if you're using a bluetooth keyboard/mouse they'll quit working when you boot up the VM), the CD drive, and video camera. I'm pretty sure it does NOT support the firewire port at this time. The wireless network is virtualized and will work over whatever the Mac is connected to. [/QUOTE]
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