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<blockquote data-quote="drgrafix" data-source="post: 807703" data-attributes="member: 38559">I'm about to make this leap of faith and put VMFusion on my iMac.&nbsp; I have purchased Vista and I have a couple of nagging questions.1.&nbsp; Will Vista suck up my mac's resources to the degree that it will feel sluggish when the Vista window and MS programs are running?2.&nbsp; I have a Lacie 1TB disc with plenty of room on it, and its using my firewire 800 connection.&nbsp; Should Vista be installed on the Lacie, and if so, is that difficult to set up?&nbsp; I only ask this because of my worry about viruses. And of course... would this make it sluggish?3.&nbsp; I still have my &quot;old&quot; Shuttle PC running XP Pro, and I was wondering if its possible to simply move over the OS and the 2 or 3 programs to the Lacie drive.&nbsp; I ask this because of the resource issue (XP over Vista), but I know that MS will not support XP sometime in the future.But as I understand this miracle (LOL), I will be able to open a XP/Vista window within the Mac desktop, and then run my Corel programs.&nbsp; Lets say I create some graphics and then export that graphic as a TIFF file which could then be used in my mac's photoshop?&nbsp; And yes... I hope to wean myself off of these windows programs and learn illustrator and a few others.&nbsp; I have already dumped MS Office for iWork '09 and I'm getting by just fine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="drgrafix, post: 807703, member: 38559"] I'm about to make this leap of faith and put VMFusion on my iMac. I have purchased Vista and I have a couple of nagging questions. 1. Will Vista suck up my mac's resources to the degree that it will feel sluggish when the Vista window and MS programs are running? 2. I have a Lacie 1TB disc with plenty of room on it, and its using my firewire 800 connection. Should Vista be installed on the Lacie, and if so, is that difficult to set up? I only ask this because of my worry about viruses. And of course... would this make it sluggish? 3. I still have my "old" Shuttle PC running XP Pro, and I was wondering if its possible to simply move over the OS and the 2 or 3 programs to the Lacie drive. I ask this because of the resource issue (XP over Vista), but I know that MS will not support XP sometime in the future. But as I understand this miracle (LOL), I will be able to open a XP/Vista window within the Mac desktop, and then run my Corel programs. Lets say I create some graphics and then export that graphic as a TIFF file which could then be used in my mac's photoshop? And yes... I hope to wean myself off of these windows programs and learn illustrator and a few others. I have already dumped MS Office for iWork '09 and I'm getting by just fine. [/QUOTE]

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