Hi Phil,
I have only ever worked with a MacBook Pro running 4gb of ram and with
a 320 hard drive (not an SSD). From my experience, the virtual
machine setup with usable for tiems when you only want to run Windows
for a few minutes, in somewhat limited situations. What I have found,
however, is that after setting up Boot Camp on my computer, I see no
difference in performance whatsoever. I have been running my system
under Windows exclusively over the past week or so for school-related
things that I need Microsoft Word for, and it is though I were running
on a PC. I always found Fusion with Windows and JAWS, or any other
screen-reader, to be very sluggish, especially if I had other programs
running in the background, no matter how much I increased available
memory to the VM through Fusion settings.
Now, this is only my opinion and thoughts, of course. It very well
may be that for most people this set up works perfectly fine. Indeed,
I made it work for me for around a year or so. However, for
day-to-day reliable performance, I found I needed Windows under Boot
Camp, and again, thank you to all on this list who helped me to
achieve that. Your patience was and is very kind and appreciated.
I considered upgrading my RAM, etc. and certainly increased RAM may
help, but I'm not certain how much. I know that VoiceOver likes to
say "Busy, busy, busy" in programs sometimes, and I remember that I
have had the same issues with that as someone who had 2 gb of ram.
But ram is always supposed to be the biggest factor in immediate
increased performance.
Thanks,
Harry
On 7/14/13, Phil Halton <philh...@comcast.net> wrote:
I want to be able to run fusion/win7 on a macbook air with as little
degradation of performance as possible. What would you think would
be the
minimum upgrades necessary to a Macbook Air 13 inch? I assume 8GB
memory,
256 SSD, and a processor upgrade of some kind - what would the list
recommend for processor?
Also, what advantages do the Macbook Pro have over the Air? is it worth
considering a Pro over an Air model?
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