[X4U] Vista Home Basic With Parallels

[Peter Apockotos]

You want to get the 64 bit version of Vista if you have any Core 2  
Duo or higher processors.

Peter Apockotos
http://www.apokotos.com

On May 2, 2007, at 5:02 AM, Tim Collier wrote:

> 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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>>>
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