[X4U] Vista Home Basic With Parallels

[Tim Collier]

Oh, I forgot to mention that I am running Vista Home Edition Premium  
on my Mac Pro.  It's running on it's own hard drive which I created  
with BootCamp.  I runs EXTREMELY well on the Mac Pro.  Of course the  
PIA is that I have to run AV software on it...but such is life.  My  
suggestion, if you can run a Version of Vista, do.  I like the OS X- 
like Vista Interface the only drawback is that Vista only recognizes  
2 gig of the 8 gig that I have installed on my Mac Pro.  I've heard  
that the 64 bit version doesn't limit this  like the 32 bit version  
does.  But under 2 gig, it still runs fine.  At last, I can run  
Windows Games again.  I was a huge Windows gamer before switching to  
the Mac back in 2001.

Tim
On May 2, 2007, at 4:44 AM, Tim Collier wrote:

> I recently had a MacBook (1.83 gig--sorta on the low end)  I  
> decided to Run Vista Basic Home Edition on it via BootCamp.   It  
> ran very well....even faster (my opinion) than OSX.  I then  
> upgraded to the latest MacBook Pro and decided to run Vista Basic  
> Home Edition via Parallels, it ran just as well.  But now, I  
> decided I don't want Windows of any type on my MacBook Pro and have  
> removed it.  But the overall performance was quite good.  That's my  
> personal experience.  I'm now selling the Install software on  
> ebay.  We'll see how that goes.
>
> Tim
> On May 1, 2007, at 10:08 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
>
>> I've asked this on a couple of Mac discussion lists, with no  
>> satisfactory answers.   I hope to have better luck here.
>>
>> Putting aside shrink-wrap licensing issues, can anyone tell me if  
>> Vista Home Basic works with Parallels?  (I'm looking for first  
>> hand experience.)  Has anyone here used this combination  
>> successfully?
>>
>> Are there any invaluable features in any of the other editions of  
>> Vista that would make me want to consider them instead?  Checking  
>> here:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/ 
>> choose.mspx
>> I don't see any.
>>
>> ___________________________________________
>> Randy B. Singer
>> Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
>>
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