"... you've done to speed it up..." No... except I installed bootcamp first.
I think - most people do not use bootcamp. Boot camp does take up extra memory. I use bootcamp - to boot directly to Windows - so that OSX is not even loaded. This speeds up the OS a lot... but it kinda defeats the purchase of buying a Mac. Why boot to windows is you are buying a Mac ??? - is a question I've gotten a lot. If you to boot directly into OSX + Parallels - you are interpreting Windows... but if most of what you do is in OSX... that's the better root. Windows running through Parallels and OSX has always been decent (for me)... just not quite as fast as directly into Windows. With my first Mac... I didn't care about Mac OSX. I was and still am more comfortable with Windows. I was more interested in the size of the Mac. When I bought a Mac 17... it weighed less than 1/2 of the lightest (similar powered) Windows laptops - and it cost more. But for someone who needed to lug the laptop around a lot - size / weight was very important. Even today - I don't use Mac OSX that much... especially now that the Ultra Lights are available. Weight is no longer a consideration. Usage will affect it speed. For (windows) video - I boot directly into Windows... as running WMV files in OSX can be sllllooooooowwww. Many times, I will have 4 or 5 video open at the same time. In Windows this is not an issue. In Parallels... it IS an issue. I'm not a use fan of Quick Time... or Flip4Mac either. I would rather use Media Center Classic. The 2 biggest things with Parallels is how much ram it has And how much disk space is allotted to the Windows partition. Remember - since Parallels treats Windows "as a file"... the will be a lot of disk caching. Increasing either of these (as with Windows) will probably help. -----Original Message----- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:camer...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:23 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Going to the MAC side 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:351564 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
