All good input for a newbie to Mac. Parallels has been slow as crap for me every time I open it, to the point of being completely worthless to me. Anything special you've done to speed it up? Maybe I just have bad luck?
-Cameron On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Pierre Demester <pie...@demester.com>wrote: > > Responding to several different questions. > > I have a couple MBP's (13", 15", and 17")... and also a MacPro... all with > XP, Vista, or Win 7 (multiple test platforms). > > Each MBP and MacPro has Parallels and Team Viewer installed. > > Parallels will let you run windows software on the Mac. Just about anything > that runs on Windows can be run a Mac... including most games... but games > are slow (not recommended - plus I don't have time for games). Remember, > Parallels interprets Windows... so it may be a little slower in some cases. > > My systems for strictly business. Each laptop has MS Office Enterprise, CF > Server Enterprise, SQL Server Enterprise, Home Site, Cute FTP, and Putty > SSH... and all 3 major browsers. I have yet to find anything that doesn't > run... except some of the really old win-32 XP stuff that doesn't run in > Vista or Win 7 either. > > I tried Apple Pages... it didn't agree with me. We fought. It lost. > Installed Office instead. Try Open Office if you want open source. OO is > slowwwwwwwwwwww though. > > Have not tried Office for Mac... MS will not give us Office Mac... but we > get everything that runs on Win boxes. I wouldn't mind trying Office Mac - > have considered buying it. > > Parallels and VMWare will let you open windows applications as if they were > mac apps... they can sit side by side. You can watch video via the mac > player while also watching a video with windows media player. > > Parallels installs Windows as "a file" - deleting the file trashed > windows... but since it's a file - You can reboot windows through Parallels > as if closing MS Office - then reopening it. It's kinda cool. > > The bad thing is - since it's a file - if the get corrupt - Windows is > shot. > Hosed. It's happed couple times to me. Sometimes also - the windows license > manager messes up - and accuses you of pirating software. MS counts the > number of times you enter the key code... so after a while it may not > register - and you need to call MS. MS has been decent about this thought - > and simply reset the ticker. > > I've tried VMWare and Virtual Box... prefer Parallels. > > I also have bootcamp installed - so my MBP's boot to windows instead of > OSX. > > To boot to OSX - press / hold ctrl in boot process... a menu will appear. > Mac OS loads and shuts down much faster. > > There are viruses on the Mac - though not as prevalent. The more popular > they become - the prevalent they will be. > > Biggest difference in OS is - in Windows - each window will have it's own > menu bars. In OSX - menus are shared on monitor 1. Clicking an application > resets the menus to that application. Ie: selecting a photoshop window - > changes the menus to photoshop specific. > > "Finder" is Macs version of Windows Explorer. > > Team Viewer will allow you to connect to any computer on your network... > ie: > transfer files. > > It's slower than backing up onto a USB drive... but it works well if you > just want to set it up to transfer and walk away for a while. > > As I said (in a different subject)... I haven't opened any of my laptops in > a while - since I started got my iPads. > > Macs are extremely expensive - but if you have the $$$... max the ram out - > and buy the memory after market. > > As for the warranty... don't get the Best Buy thing. Macs have a 1 year > warranty from date of registration. You can purchase an extended warranty > at > any time - as long as you activate the warranty BEFORE the 1 year warranty > expires. > > The extended warranty gives you an additional 2 years of protection. So > with > the standard and extended warranty in place - you get a total of 3 years. > Buy the warranty from ebay... you can save a little money. > > Right click issue - becomes a CTLR-Click on a Mac. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351562 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
