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Upgrade - Should I worry about boot camp or Fusion being corrupted?
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<blockquote data-quote="B-Ryan" data-source="post: 932531" data-attributes="member: 89225"><p>I'm not sure what you use your mac and vm fusion for.. But I can tell you my experience. First let me give you a run down on my situation.</p><p></p><p>I have a macbook pro 17" 2.93 unibody with 4gb. I'm a front end web developer and use CS4 (usually just Photoshop), vm fusion with (xp pro, vs 2003, vs 2008, Aptana, firefox and ie6) and (win7, ie8 and firefox), Aptana, Entourage, ichat and itunes, all day long. And also Time Machine; thank god. </p><p></p><p>Before the upgrade, I backed up my system. And I took note of my free hd and ram. I had around 1 gb free of ram. After the upgrade... I had 10mb! I couldn't do anything, except constant restarts. Running 2 VM window instances really crippled my computer now. And to top it off, Cisco VPN Client no longer worked. </p><p></p><p>Needless to say, when I got home from work.. I put the snow leopard disk back in and went to the utilities section, then to restore from Time Machine. That took about 2 hours. But everything is back to normal. Nothing was left messed up.</p><p></p><p>To sum it up, just make sure you do a back up first. And you should be fine with the new os; if all you do is use a few programs at the same time. Like a web browser and text editor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="B-Ryan, post: 932531, member: 89225"] I'm not sure what you use your mac and vm fusion for.. But I can tell you my experience. First let me give you a run down on my situation. I have a macbook pro 17" 2.93 unibody with 4gb. I'm a front end web developer and use CS4 (usually just Photoshop), vm fusion with (xp pro, vs 2003, vs 2008, Aptana, firefox and ie6) and (win7, ie8 and firefox), Aptana, Entourage, ichat and itunes, all day long. And also Time Machine; thank god. Before the upgrade, I backed up my system. And I took note of my free hd and ram. I had around 1 gb free of ram. After the upgrade... I had 10mb! I couldn't do anything, except constant restarts. Running 2 VM window instances really crippled my computer now. And to top it off, Cisco VPN Client no longer worked. Needless to say, when I got home from work.. I put the snow leopard disk back in and went to the utilities section, then to restore from Time Machine. That took about 2 hours. But everything is back to normal. Nothing was left messed up. To sum it up, just make sure you do a back up first. And you should be fine with the new os; if all you do is use a few programs at the same time. Like a web browser and text editor. [/QUOTE]
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