Should I be able to have the following open on a Macbook Pro 2.16 with 2GB of ram and run without delays/problems? MAC OS - Photoshop - Acrobat Pro - Parallels WINDOWS XP OS - Excel and, sometimes Word and/or Powerpoint - Outlook - Explorer - Terminal services This is what I have and while I don't always have everything running, sometimes I do. Things aren't so good. It is slow, and crashes. I've been working like this for several months but am going to change. I may get a PC for all my office stuff but that means 2 laptops, argh, or leaving my office work in the office, also a bit of a poor solution.
A Macbook Pro should be more than adequate for the listed applications. If you are on a Powerbook (as you have listed in the title of this question) you will not be able to run Parallels at all. It needs the Intel processor and not the old G4. Hope this helps!
FWIW I have almost exactly the same configuration and it all works flawlessly. The only problem I had was that video playback was "choppy" under expee. Bumping the RAM allocation to 1 gig took care of that and everything seems very smooth on both sides. DD
my set up just now just keeps on trucking this is from inside my VM - with a danish sytem ========================= Navn på operativsystem Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 build 2600 Navn på producent Microsoft Corporation Systemnavn ************************** Systemproducent Ikke tilgængelig Systemmodel Ikke tilgængelig Systemtype X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 8 GenuineIntel ~16224 Mhz BIOS-version/dato UNKNOWN, 07/03/2007 Windows-mappe C:\WINDOWS System-mappe C:\WINDOWS\system32 Startenhed \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Landestandard Storbritannien Abstraktionslag for hardware Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)" Brugernavn **************\Ejer Tidszone Greenwich, normaltid Fysisk hukommelse i alt 511.55 MB out of 2gb on MacBook Pto Tilgængelig fysisk hukommelse 114.70 MB Virtuel hukommelse i alt 2.00 GB Tilgængelig virtuel hukommelse 1.96 GB Plads til sidefil 1.22 GB page file Sidefil C:\pagefile.sys ============================== IRQ 9 PCITool IRQ 9 Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB2 Udvidet værtscontroller - 265C IRQ 9 Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM AC'97-lydkort Hukommelsesadresse 0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI-bus Hukommelsesadresse 0xA0000-0xBFFFF Parallels Video Driver snipped ===================== IRQ 1 PC/AT udvidet PS/2-tastatur (101/102 taster) OK IRQ 6 Standarddiskettecontroller OK IRQ 9 PCITool OK IRQ 9 Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB2 Udvidet værtscontroller - 265C OK IRQ 9 Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM AC'97-lydkort OK IRQ 10 Parallels Network Adapter OK IRQ 11 Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB-universel værtscontroller - 2658 OK IRQ 12 Parallels Mouse Synchronization Tool OK IRQ 14 Primær IDE-kanal OK ========================= 0xC0000000-0xC0FFFFFF Parallels Video Driver OK 0xC1000000-0xC10003FF Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB2 Udvidet værtscontroller - 265C OK 0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI-bus OK 0xA0000-0xBFFFF Parallels Video Driver OK 0xCA000-0xDFFFF PCI-bus OK 0x20000000-0xFFFFFFFF PCI-bus OK ================= HD Drev A: Beskrivelse 3,5"-diskettedrev Drev C: Beskrivelse Lokal harddisk Komprimeret Nej Filsystem NTFS Størrelse 31.24 GB (33,542,656,000 byte) Ledig plads 22.78 GB (24,457,232,384 byte)<<<<< all modern machines need lots of space for scratch files Enhedsnavn Enhedens serienummer A45****** Drev D: Beskrivelse Cd-rom ================= the only time it ran slowly was when I gave it 1 gb memory out of 2 gb RAM Hugh W
All of this is fine, though for your user satisfaction, I'd recommend moving to Mac native alternatives as you can. For example, I wouldn't generally recommend using Office under windows unless you are married to Exchange. That's alot of overhead when you have a Mac version of Office that really is only missing robust Exchange MAPI functions, in POP3/SMTP/IMAP it's good, if not great. For Terminal Services, you have MS's own Remote Desktop Client for the Mac, and it's alright for single sessions, you also have the option of using rdesktop under X11. I personally use Parallels for Delphi & VS.Net in addition to some app testing. In my view, the less I run in Windows, the better
Should work fine...especially considering Parallels will likely only work half the time anyway, thus NOT consuming system resources
