Strange, I ran it SLLOOWWLLY on my 1.83 early series MacBook on 512, and the Apple demo machine (black 2 GHz) I took around schools only had 1 gig of RAM and there wasn't a PC laptop which I couldn't beat on start up, etc - which annoyed more than one or two school Principals with fancy PC laptops! I have 2 gig in my machine now but after a period of time, Parallels has even slowed down on that - typical PC behaviour. Holiday job to do a PC clean up - if only it was as simple as on the Mac. Sorry, can't offer any great pearls of wisdom on this one, but extra RAM makes your MacBook sing so it is worth it on the Mac side alone! Cheers H in NZ On 21/12/2007, at 5:43 PM, Paul Bernhardt wrote: > I've installed Parallels on a Macbook and it has bogged it down > terribly. 1 GB RAM, new machine (4 months old, that is), running > Tiger. > > Anyone here have experience running Parallels? Any ideas on > optimizing performance? > > TIA! > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > iBook mailing list > iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook