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Discussion in 'Technology' started by Zack, Jun 14, 2012.

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  1. Zack

    Zack Formula 3

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    #1 Zack, Jun 14, 2012
    I use Macs now, got sick of Windows problems, but I find the Mac OS often getting in the way of being really productive. Explorer, for instance, is miles ahead of Finder. Shortcut keys are often a missing feature in Mac software. Etc. So, I want to switch back and forth as needed.

    After reading numerous threads about blue screens and unrecoverable partitions, I was wondering what people's thoughts are on just installing the OS, immediately installing VMWare or something similar, and then creating a virtual machine running all my Windows programs in that. It would make it easy to restore from a snapshop in case of a problem, and would only take a couple of seconds to get going again. Of course it would be important to create a snapshop after any software installs or updates, but other than that, it seems like a good way to stay safe?

    Only problem would be the performance and battery hit, I think. For what I do, no big deal except on photoshop and video editing. Your opinions on this?
     
  2. Fast_ian

    Fast_ian Two Time F1 World Champ

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    #2 Fast_ian, Jun 14, 2012
    My 02c; I've used both VMWare & Parallels to run an XP VM under OSX - It mostly works, but you mention PS & video editing - The latter in particular will be painfully slow unless things have changed significantly over the past few years [All my kit is now "old"!]

    For video editing, I had to go to Bootcamp and boot between the two - A PITA, but everything ran at "full speed" with no worries.

    Cheers,
    Ian
     
  3. Schimpf

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    #3 Schimpf, Jun 17, 2012
    VMware Fusion works excellent, look into the new "X" features.

    Used a Windows (Visio etc) & Linux VM (pen testing) on top of Mac OS X for years & it works excellent
     
  4. valter

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    #4 valter, Jun 21, 2012
    ALL Virtualization software sucks. Parallels is the best one out there for mac. Solution - have two separate machines, one win, one osx. Looks inconvenient, but in reality works great.

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