I find that just using Boot Camp is worth the initial hassle. It's much faster, plus I don't have to clutter up my Mac side with all that PC software. :-) I'm currently running the 9.3 student evaluation copy under Windows 7 on my 13" MacBook Pro using Boot Camp and I haven't had any problems. It's not the fastest machine for ArcGIS, but it's faster than it would be under software emulation...
The biggest problem I have is dealing with the Mac NTFS issue. I hate having to use a dedicated fat32 drive to transfer files from the mac side to my big NTFS drive. Cheers, Chris 2011/4/21 Steven Garrett <[email protected]>: > If I just want to run stand alone Windows apps on a Mac, is Parallels the > only software I need? Or do I need VMware Fusion too? > > Steven > > > ________________________________ > From: Ross A. McKenzie <[email protected]> > To: UW - GIS Discussion and Support <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, April 21, 2011 1:01:39 PM > Subject: Re: [UW-GIS-L] Re: Arc on a Mac > > > VMWare has a software utility that will import a running windows machine > onto your mac: > > http://www.vmware.com/download/fusion/windows_to_mac.html > > I've used it once (with winXP) and it worked as advertised. > > -- > ross > -- __________________________________ Christopher A. Scott Master of Urban Planning Candidate 2011 University of Washington College of Built Environments [email protected] [email protected] 206.919.0619 _______________________________________________ Uw-gis-l mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/uw-gis-l
