Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Nov 10, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Philip Leeson wrote: > Parallels 5 and Windows XP > > If you need to switch back and forth a lot, as I do in the office, I'd use > the virtual machine programs; I have several years experience with > Parallels and find the current version (when running Snow Leopard) to be > very fast. > > If you just want one system at a time, Boot Camp is fine and runs well. > > I personally haven't gone newer than Windows XP and would wait a while on > Windows 7. > No way would I use Vista, as XP does all I need with fewer glitches. sounds good, thanks Phil... Steve > > Phil > > On Nov 10, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Steve Barbour wrote: > >> >> On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Brian Reid wrote: >> >>> >>>> Brian had said in the past that he preferred VMWare. >>> >>> I've used both. I actually preferred Parallels, but I ran into some >>> nagging bugs that I couldn't get their customer service people to help >>> me with. I switched to VMware, which didn't have those bugs (presumably >>> it has others), and it has worked perfectly. I was astonished to >>> discover that VMware could use the virtual machine files that were >>> created and left behind by Parallels. >>> >>> I find that using a Windows system on a Mac is not a compromise or a >>> kludge or a workaround. It's real, it works well, and it's perfectly OK >>> to plan on using it in the long term. That surprised me, as I expected >>> it to be all of those things (compromise, kludge, workaround). >> >> so what is the current single best solution to run Windows on an Intel >> Mac, either iMac or MacBook Pro ? >> >> >> what third party solution and what Windows system...? >> >> >> thanks, >> >> >> >> Steve >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information