For those who are using XP on Bootcamp for only the “necessities” (WKO, Computrainer, whatever) – what size partition did you create?
Thanks.
why would you dual boot when you can just run parallels or fusion?
As for a partition, it depends on how much you are going to be using windows and are you going to be keeping data there or just using it to run the programs? If you are going to keep data, then make the partition around 20 gigs, if not, make it 10.
bootcamp is stupid, you went to mac for a reason, just run windows in a virtual machine and treat it like an application.
why would you dual boot when you can just run parallels or fusion?
As for a partition, it depends on how much you are going to be using windows and are you going to be keeping data there or just using it to run the programs? If you are going to keep data, then make the partition around 20 gigs, if not, make it 10.
bootcamp is stupid, you went to mac for a reason, just run windows in a virtual machine and treat it like an application.
As an example of why bootcamp might still be useful, I talked with the Racermate / Computrainer folks last Spring at the Seattle Bike Expo specifically about running the Computrainer 3D software in a VM. They said that they didn’t know of anyone that successfully got their software to run in a Windows VM running on a Mac, but it would run in bootcamp. Maybew that’s changed with the lateset versions of Parallels and Fusion, but I haven’t tried it myself yet.
If anyone has succeeded at this, it would be a very useful thing to know.
both fusion and parallels have improved their 3d rendering in the last year, download one of the trials and give it a go. start with parallels 4.0
Sounds like you could probably make due with a 5 GB partition. Plenty of reasons not to mess with Parallels or Fusion.
a) XP under Bootcamp runs faster than under either Fusion or Parallels
b) Bootcamp is free, the other two will cost you.
- why would you dual boot when you can just run parallels or fusion*?
Yeah, so I just joined the Leopard party ($100) …and I’m not too keen on spending another $75 for the ability to “treat it like an application.” I’m ok with re-booting, waiting the 2 minutes for Windows to start up, and uploading my WKO data. Or am I missing some other advantage that VM or Parallels offers? Thanks for the partition suggestion though - I’m just running WKO and keeping that data there.
***b) Bootcamp is free, the other two will cost you. ***
My point exactly, thank you very much.
if money is an issue, virtual box from sun will do the same thing.
both fusion and parallels have improved their 3d rendering in the last year, download one of the trials and give it a go. start with parallels 4.0
From what I remember of the conversation I had with their tech support folks, it wasn’t a 3D rendering issue; the problem was with the serial-to-USB adapters. Their software has issues with some of these devices (depending on who the adapter vendor is) even under regular (i.e., non-VM) copies of XP, but apparently the problems are worse when XP is in a VM.
Chris