On Jul 23, 2007, at 20:58, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > I installed Parallels and Windows XP this week. I am using > Parallels' 2 > week try before you buy program. It's way cool. > > Since installing Parallels some features in some programs are running > slower even if I have not opened Parallels.
Can you be more specific? There was some talk about this on macosxhints recently [1]. I've not witnessed it, so I didn't really pay it much mind. > > My MacBook Pro has 2 gb of memory installed, and if I read the manual > that came with the computer correctly - I can install a total of 4 > GB of > memory. Does anyone know if that is correct? > > Where, IYHOs [ In Your Humble Opinions :-) ] is the best place to > buy > memory for my laptop and how much is it going for? Dang, 2GB should be plenty. I have 2GB on my mac mini at work, give 832MB to Parallels, and only have any slowness if Parallels forces a swap file when it first starts up. (This is using the memory-hogging Vista Ultimate, too.) I'd lower the memory for Windoze a little bit. Oh, I forgot, the other slow-downs I sometimes witness are when Longhorn, er, I mean Vista, downloads its 47 'important security fixes' in the background each day. [2] Bill [1] http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070717095657136 [2] I exaggerate, of course, but there is roughly one slowly downloading security fix per week which then forces a reboot of Parallels.
