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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1636190"><p>Heh, OK, I'm getting older and the little grey cells don't work so good anymore. The only spec that is a bit dodgy is the 4GB of memory. But if you keep the Virtual WIndows system small, say 1GB, that should be OK. (What happens with virtual machines is that you assign a certain amount of memory to the virtual machine and while it is running, it takes over that block for itself. So, given you have 4GB now, if you gave 1 to WIndows in Parallels, you'd end up with 3GB for everything else. But when you shut down Windows and end Parallels, you get it all back. Does that make sense?</p><p></p><p>Of course, with Boot Camp, windows gets all 4gb because that's the ONLY OS running.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1636190"] Heh, OK, I'm getting older and the little grey cells don't work so good anymore. The only spec that is a bit dodgy is the 4GB of memory. But if you keep the Virtual WIndows system small, say 1GB, that should be OK. (What happens with virtual machines is that you assign a certain amount of memory to the virtual machine and while it is running, it takes over that block for itself. So, given you have 4GB now, if you gave 1 to WIndows in Parallels, you'd end up with 3GB for everything else. But when you shut down Windows and end Parallels, you get it all back. Does that make sense? Of course, with Boot Camp, windows gets all 4gb because that's the ONLY OS running. [/QUOTE]
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