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Posted 06 July 2007 - 03:29 PM

Hi,
I was wondering if there is anything besides Parallels to choose from as far as operating Windows on. Parallels seemed to have alot of lag and it became very frustrating.
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Posted 06 July 2007 - 04:22 PM

There is Boot Camp or VMware's Fusion.

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Posted 11 July 2007 - 03:28 AM

just wondering, how is your Parallel VM set up on your Mac? how much phys. memory do you have. What software are you experiencing the lag in.
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Posted 14 July 2007 - 02:55 PM

Boot camp will give you the best bang for your buck (its free for the moment and will be part of Leopard in the future). Additionally Bootcamp runs windows natively, that is you boot into windows as you would with osx or any other pc. That means you'll not have access to OSX unless you change the start up drive and reboot.
VMware's Fusion, is a serious contender instead of parallels. Like parallels its a VM, but performance and stability seem to be better with fusion. Please note however fusion is in beta and its 1.0 is going to be in august. You still can download and use it.
If you're looking to play games or run some applications that are GPU bound or need performance then bootcamp is your best bet.
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