Paralells on Macbook with 80GB HD
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anybody has tried to install paralellsand windows vista on a MACBOOK with 80GB hard drive and 1gb ram. Is there any conflicts? Any recommendation?
thank you
Fernando
Vista is going to want around 30GB, regardless of version. And 1GB of memory is going to be painfully slow, if Vista starts at all. You should look into an upgrade for youtr Macbook to 2GB.
If you don't have a pressing need, XP is a better choice for Parallels on a MacBook with a gig of RAM. If all you have is Vista, BootCamp is a better option if you plan on running more than a single program.
Having said that, I am running XP in Parallels, and Vista with BootCamp on a 2ghz C2d MacBook with 2GB of ram without issues.
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