Done and done. The hard drive upgrade went very well. Once I got all my mac apps installed, then I moved on to installing VMWare Fusion. I’ve been reading some great things about this, and they have been doing VM pretty longer than anyone, so I thought I’d try it. Bonus is that it is $30 cheaper than Parallels.
So far so good. Since I only need a few apps installed on this machine, it didn’t take long. VNC, firefox, pcanywhere and possibly Word and Excel. That’s really about it. I could install more if need be, but I don’t want to spend more time here than I really have to. I mostly need it for work, so I’ll keep work stuff on it.
It was really too easy. A bit spendy to get it all done, but for a grand total of less than $1500 (Macbook w/2GB of RAM, 120GB Hard drive, WinXP Pro, VMWare), I know have a machine that runs anything I want. heck, I might even set up an Ubuntu machine too, since I can.
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August 17th, 2007 at 4:49 am
hey congrats! I’m interested in how VM works versus parallels. I have parallels installed to just so I can check work email (lotus notes..blech) and it crashes fairly often…Ever give bootcamp a chance? I thought about it but I have a wireless keyboard/mouse that wouldn’t be supported. Harddrive upgrade was a good read, too!
August 17th, 2007 at 5:38 am
I thought about bootcamp, but you have to reboot to use Windows. Not terribly convenient, but I would bet perfomance might be better. I also wouldn’t blame crashing on parallels with Notes running
So far with VMWare everything works (usb keyboard and mouse, isight) and I have come across any problems. if there are any, they will show up today I’m sure.