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VMware or Parallels - using less resources when not in use?
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<blockquote data-quote="edokid" data-source="post: 1360968" data-attributes="member: 259418"><p>Hey everyone here's my situation. I have a MacBook Air 13" but for my job I need to use websites that only work in Internet Explorer a lot. I'm trying VMware and also Parallels which both work great. My problem though is that I don't like keeping them open since it seems like they're big memory hogs and my fan gets going a lot etc so I save the state and close them. It's a huge pain though to have to wait for it to re-load every time I need to use it. </p><p></p><p>What I've been doing is using Amazon EC2 hosted platform and using Windows Server 2008 and remote desktop connection into it. This works but sometimes it's slow since it's running over the Internet of course.</p><p></p><p>Just looking for tips or thoughts on Vmware or Parallels. If I Command-H to hide it, does it use less resources? Or what do people do? Ideally I'd love to never have to shut it down so that it's always there at the ready when I need it but not if it's going to suck up memory and make my fans go. What do most people do?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="edokid, post: 1360968, member: 259418"] Hey everyone here's my situation. I have a MacBook Air 13" but for my job I need to use websites that only work in Internet Explorer a lot. I'm trying VMware and also Parallels which both work great. My problem though is that I don't like keeping them open since it seems like they're big memory hogs and my fan gets going a lot etc so I save the state and close them. It's a huge pain though to have to wait for it to re-load every time I need to use it. What I've been doing is using Amazon EC2 hosted platform and using Windows Server 2008 and remote desktop connection into it. This works but sometimes it's slow since it's running over the Internet of course. Just looking for tips or thoughts on Vmware or Parallels. If I Command-H to hide it, does it use less resources? Or what do people do? Ideally I'd love to never have to shut it down so that it's always there at the ready when I need it but not if it's going to suck up memory and make my fans go. What do most people do? [/QUOTE]
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