Ah - so really, you are booting into Windows. I use OSX exclusively and Parallels is just something I use very very occasionally. I already have my RAM maxed out and I don't think I will ever want to boot directly to Windows (so I don't have Boot Camp installed). Mainly I was curious about running Windows as a VM in Parallels, which for me is barely usable it's so slow.
-Cameron On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Pierre Demester <pie...@demester.com>wrote: > > "... 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:351565 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
