Can I go the other way, buy fusion, install Windows, and dump that to a boot
camp partition some how? This Macbook is resisting all attempts, even with
sighted help, to even boot the windows disk, and I have two different ones.
One of them I know says it contains service pack 2, and they say nothing
about 64-bit, so they must be 32. I know the one for the desktop definitely
is. I was thinking with a VM of Windows, I could slip it on through the back
door. I tried the option key to boot, holding C, resetting the PRam, only
waited for 3 chimes, some people say to go as many as 5. I looked at a forum
post and someone said it's a bad luck of the draw because they have two of
the same model Macbook and one bootcamped and the other refused. Without
another Mac, how else can I get the partition loaded with XP?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Alawami" <marri...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: parelells a complete waist of my time
I tried running 7 u8nder 512 mb of ram and it hurt totally. jaws studered
and it sounded owful. Here it is under 2 gigs. Sorry about the bad quality.
I had to plug in another osund card just to here the thing.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1672188/vmware%20fudge%20up.mp3
I ran 32 gigs and had about 2 gigs left for the ram. the windows run under 2
gigs 1 core. I have a dool core processer. Vocie over was still fine.
On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
As you discovered VMWare is pretty much the only accessible virtualization
package on the mac. Sun's VirtualBox doesn't have an accessible GUI but it
does have a command line interface, so it can still be used that way. As
far as speed and performance goes, Windows beats on the hard drive a good
bit so it can take a while to un-sludge after starting up, especially if
your Mac is trying to access the drive at the same time. Also need to
check how much RAM you have left. My MacBook has 3GB so if I run 1.5GB for
VMWare that only leaves 1.5GB for the Mac. If the Mac runs out it starts
doing 'virtual memory' which swaps older chunks of RAM to the hard drive
which is orders of magnitude slower than real RAM. So, if your Windows
virtual machine pounds the hard drive and you trigger some virtual memory
swapping to hard drive you're in for a world of hurt. You might actually
be faster with that 512MB virtual machine and not triggering memory
swapping.
CB
Sarah Alawami wrote:
Hello. I decided to try parelells and found it to be inaccessibal with
mac voice over. if it is can someone shead some lite on this? this is
driving me nuts!
Thaks.
S
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