[Macpartners] MacBookPro / Windows Vista

[Hans Dietrich]

Hi Al,
would just make one recommendation, that is for Parallels to work  
effectively, you must have at least 2 GB of RAM.
I have only 1GB and it's a "dog".

cheers
Hans
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Hans Dietrich
hansdiet at mit.edu
617-253-1313

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On May 17, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Albert Willis wrote:

>
> On May 13, 2007, at 8:42 PM, Marion Leeds Carroll wrote:
>
>> Hi -
>>
>> I find that even if I purchase a Mac for personal use, it's subject
>> to an educational discount from Apple because I work here - cool!
>> So I'm looking into replacing my very old and misbehaving PC with a
>> MacBookPro plus the available Windows interface:  Parallels Desktop
>> for Mac plus Windows Vista Business Edition.
>>
>> - Has anyone on this list tried this interface? Is it good?
>> - how/where did you purchase the software to make the Windows
>> interface work? - is it available via MIT?
>> - has anyone tried the transfer of files from PC to MacBook?  Is it
>> hard? (I don't want to lose a lot of things I have on my old PC, so
>> it seems to me if I can bring a PC interface in the transition
>> would be simpler -- and also I need to be able to view web pages on
>> a PC, for editing purposes)
>>
>> - Marion
>
> Marion,
>
> Parallels Desktop is available from GovConnection at an education
> discount.
>
> Parallels Desktop has become quite popular on campus; most people
> like being able to run Windows and Mac OS X at the same time without
> rebooting. Parallels has a Coherence mode, which hides Windows while
> letting you interact with a Windows program. You can use Internet
> Explorer or Outlook without fussing with the rest of Windows if you
> like. You can see a demo at http://www.parallels.com/products/
> coherence/.
>
> I haven't used it, but Parallels comes with Transporter for moving a
> Windows environment from a PC to virtual machine on your Mac.
>
> Keep in mind that there's no IS&T support for Parallels at this time;
> though you may be able to get help from various email lists.
>
>    -- Al
>
>
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