MacBook Pro & Parallels 7/Windows XP compatibility?

Im am considering buying the MBPro 2.3 with 512 SSD. I run Parallels 7 and XP and am wondering after migrating to the new system how the SSD performs and is compatible with P7

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
in the BootCamp Assistant you can use 'Others' (the second from the right, mine is German language) from the Menu Bar, which lets you save the Drivers in a folder on the harddisk or USB Stick.
Regards
Stefan

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