Hi, Donna: You can postpone buying Windows by installing Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 public beta. I'm using this with Fusion 2 and TCS2 on a 2.4gHz MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.7 (latest update to "Leopard") No significant problems in FM 9.x and Acrobat 9.x in the TCS2. Initially I had problems with screen rewriting. Mostly this was due to setting the Fusion memory amount higher than needed (1.0 GB seems sufficient), and also not having enough system RAM; I had 3 GB, which left only 2 GB for the Mac OS. Replacing my 1 GB RAM chip with a 2 GB chip from Other World Computing for around $30, gave back 3 GB for for Mac OS X, and retained 1 GB for Fusion 2.
Jenny: you might want to look at Google's Calendar. HTH Regards, Peter __________________ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Jenny Greenleaf<jgreenleaf at mac.com> wrote: > I am running TCS in VMWare Fusion on a 2.8 GHz Mac. It works great. > Rock solid. Crashes less than most pure Windows machines I've used. In > fact, I don't think Windows has ever crashed. Frame has a few times, > but the patches fixed that. > > You can try most of this before making a commitment. You can download > a 30-day trial of Fusion and obtain a 30-day trial of TCS (DVD). You > do have to buy a Windows XP license. I just bought one at Fry's. The > process to create a VM and load Windows is pretty simple. > > I work on-site at my client's. I bring in my laptop, hook up to the > client's network. It was a bit of a hassle configuring printers, but > other than that I haven't had any problems. ?I connect to shared > drives, point my Mac Mail client at their Exchange server. I don't > have great calendaring ability, but I don't want to buy Office for > Windows, and I don't want to mess with Entourage. > > Jenny > > > > On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:54 AM, D L Reynolds wrote: > >> First of all, you folks are the best. Within minutes of posting, I >> was getting helpful responses. >> >> Some of you have suggested I run Windows on my beloved Mac. I've been >> hesitant to do that, fearful that it might be buggy or cranky in some >> way. From what I'm hearing, that isn't the case. So, one last >> question -- >> >> Are any of you running the Adobe Technical Communications Suite on a >> Mac > VMWare Fusion > Windows XP? I'd love to go this route if it's >> reliable. And if I get reports that TCS is stable in this >> environment, the Windows box is heading for the dumpster. (For the >> record, I'm still running FM8 and will be for the foreseeable future.) >> >> Again, most sincere thanks to all of you. You are amazing! >> >> ? ?--Donna Reynolds >> _______________________________________________