Elizabeth, I'm also running ArcView 10 on a Macbook Pro and running it off of an external SSD drive using VMWare. I am testing Parallels at the moment and to me the graphics performance seems a bit better. One thing to keep in mind is that it is probably best to physically separate any virtual machine from the original OS (Mac OSX in this case). That cuts down on two OSs hitting the same hard drive at the same time. I don't have an extra drive in my laptop so I went external. You might have an extra one in the iMac. I don't find the speed much of a problem yet so I'm happy with the setup.
Richard _______________________________________________
Uw-gis-l mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/uw-gis-l ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:27:36 -0700 From: elizabeth barnett<[email protected]> Subject: [UW-GIS-L] Arc on a Mac To:[email protected] Message-ID:<[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Any strong opinions on whether Fusion or Parallels works better to run Arc on a Mac? Also, any advice or tips out there on migrating a former PC Arc workstation (and data) to a Mac? I am optimistic that this is fairly straight forward. I hope. thanks! =================== Elizabeth A. Barnett U.S. Geological Survey c/o University of Washington Dept of Earth& Space Sciences Box 351310 Seattle, WA 98195-1310 office: 321 Old Oceanography Bldg. phone 206-553-0686 fax 206-553-8350
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