Hi guys & gals !
I'm a new happy MacBook owner. But as I do some web-designing as well as I run MS Access a lot (and have the full MS Office licence for Windows), that's why I've gotta install Windows OS as well.
I was planning to do that using Parallell along with either Windows XP Pro or Windows Vista Business.
Have been trying to read up on which OS people recommend and most posts in various Forums seems to say XP is the OS to install, BUT - then most of those threads I've found seems to be a few years old (usually from 2007/2008)...
If checking the Parallells web-page they say all versions of Vista would run good on a MacBook ( Not much of a surprise!! ;D ). But I wanted to check with you pro's what you would recommend these days. Maybe Vista works better these days than it did way back when the most of those posts I've been reading were submitted?
The thing is that it begins to be a bit harder to obtain XP (at least here in Sweden) and I can get a full Vista Business licence for 2/3 of what the XP Pro would cost me (thanks to the university I attend at this time).
So - can anyone give me some advise here - would Vista work fine or is it still XP I should install? Btw - I don't play any games or similar and I plan to run both Mac X and Windows at the same time via Parallell (so I don't have to reboot all the time when wanting to run a Windows program).
THANK YOU for any advise in this matter !
I'm a new happy MacBook owner. But as I do some web-designing as well as I run MS Access a lot (and have the full MS Office licence for Windows), that's why I've gotta install Windows OS as well.
I was planning to do that using Parallell along with either Windows XP Pro or Windows Vista Business.
Have been trying to read up on which OS people recommend and most posts in various Forums seems to say XP is the OS to install, BUT - then most of those threads I've found seems to be a few years old (usually from 2007/2008)...
If checking the Parallells web-page they say all versions of Vista would run good on a MacBook ( Not much of a surprise!! ;D ). But I wanted to check with you pro's what you would recommend these days. Maybe Vista works better these days than it did way back when the most of those posts I've been reading were submitted?
The thing is that it begins to be a bit harder to obtain XP (at least here in Sweden) and I can get a full Vista Business licence for 2/3 of what the XP Pro would cost me (thanks to the university I attend at this time).
So - can anyone give me some advise here - would Vista work fine or is it still XP I should install? Btw - I don't play any games or similar and I plan to run both Mac X and Windows at the same time via Parallell (so I don't have to reboot all the time when wanting to run a Windows program).
THANK YOU for any advise in this matter !