Monday, July 23, 200711:05 PMBill Risingbrising at mac.com
>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. Selecting attachments for an email, for example, or programs opening a tad slower now, Appleworks for example. I get the spinning beach ball some as well >> >> 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. How do you adjust memory for a program?- I thought it was done automatically in OS X. >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. > > > >_______________________________________________ >The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >be July 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >
