I agree with Kai. The only reason I run windows on my mac is for .NET development and SQL. If it wasn't for that, and the fact that I'm moving on from CF to .NET I wouldn't have it installed in the first place. Nevertheless, Parellels is my choice purely because I use co- herence all the time. out of site out of mind sort of thing.
On Oct 9, 10:15 am, "Kai Koenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :) I just don't like Windows to have full control over my beloved Mac hardware > and to give it it's own partition, that's basically it - and the reason why > I've made the switch anyway. It might not be a perfectly logical > justification, > but I feel more comfortable having Windows just in it's little self-contained > environment on the Mac HD. > > To be honest, if some of my clients weren't on SQL Server, I probably > wouldn't > even have Parallels installed... Well - and for playing with CF/.NET > integration. > I do all my other CF/Flex development directly on the Mac. > > Cheers > Kai > > >Kai, > > >Out of curiosity why don't you like Bootcamp? > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > >Behalf Of Kai Koenig > >Sent: Tuesday, 9 October 2007 9:40 AM > >To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > >Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Parallels or Bootcamp? > > >Ryan, > > >I don't think there is a def right or wrong here. I personally do not > >like Bootcamp at all, I just run a Win XP VM in Parallels. > > >There is another religious question to answer - Parallels or Fusion :) > >Again - some people are saying Fusion has a better performance - for > >my usage Parallels 3 is fine though, so I stick with it. > > >The important thing to mention anyway is - give the MBP enough RAM, > >then it should be alright either way. I'm running 4 GB of which > >I've set aside 1 GB for the Windows VM - and that's fine for > >CF, IIS and SQL Server for a dev. setup. Maybe give it 1.5 GB... > > >Cheers > >Kai > > >>You should install Bootcamp and then install Parallels to run off the > >>Boot Camp partition. That way you'll get the best of both worlds. > >> > >> > >> > >>From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > >>Behalf Of Ryan Sabir > >>Sent: Tuesday, 9 October 2007 8:20 AM > >>To: 'cfaussie@googlegroups.com' > >>Subject: [cfaussie] Parallels or Bootcamp? > >> > >>Hi all, > >> > >>We want to run a CF Server, IIS, and MS SQL Server 2005 on a Mac Laptop > >>under a virtual environment. Does Parallels have enough grunt to achieve > >>this? Or should I look at Bootcamp.. is Bootcamp stable enough? > >> > >>thanks > >> > >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
