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To develop an objective view of system performance, I ran the Use of Windows under Parallels is, well, like using it on any otherĬomputer. You will want to have at least 2 GB of RAM to run PDM/XP
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Me because I typically install the maximum RAM on my systems anyway, but System spent a lot of time swapping, motivating me to purchase anĪdditional 1 GB of RAM to max-out my system. With 1 GB of RAM and a 512 MB allocation for the virtual machine. System performance was significantly impacted when running PDM Parallels on my MacBook Pro, I had only 1 GB of RAM installed in the Parallels usedĪbout 452 MB of memory (resident size, or RSIZE) and its total memoryįootprint (VSIZE) was something over 1 GB. To illustrate, I captured the screen shot below. With a 512 MB memory allocation for Windows, Parallels uses quite a bit I bumped up the allocation under Parallels. Run with 256 MB, the system runs better with at least 512 MB.
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Windows XP Pro runs best with lots of memory. Windows Update, then downloaded and installed my tools and had the The Windows installerĮxecuted fairly quickly, and I was presented with the desktop. Once Parallels was installed, I fired it up, adjusted the memoryĪllocation from the default value of 256 MB to 512 MB, and started the
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System to send a temporary activation code for trial use. I downloaded the software, mounted the disk MacBook Pro and set it up, I downloaded a copy of Parallels and Parallels/Windows combination than with Virtual PC.
Given that background, I anticipated better performance with the However, performance of the VPC/XP combination was acceptable-not great, Wasn’t quite powerful enough to make using Windows practical. That is, while theġ.25 GHz G4 was able to run Windows under Virtual PC, the processor Usable because performance was relatively poor. Virtual PC ran, and I was able to install Windows, but the system was not
Give me access to Windows XP Pro under OS X. Of course, DOS was a relatively simple system, and itsĪfter I switched to Macintosh, I used Microsoft’s Virtual PC (VPC) to It wasĮven fairly speedy, given the hardware it was running on (80486 Intel DOSEMU worked fine for DOS-based software. The early days of Linux when system administration was fairlyĬhallenging. The fewer computers I have to maintain, the better I like it. I want to keep my computational life as simple as possible. Using and maintaining more than one computer is something I no longer Until Apple decided to use Intel processors for MacintoshĬomputers, I was forced to either use emulation, via Virtual PC, or use a second, Requires me to use a pair of standard numerical models that run only Macintosh computers but need access to Windows (or other operating This ability is important to me, and others like me, who want to use Windows, under Parallels Desktop, runs natively on my Intel-based Mac.
Technical talk means I can run Microsoft Windows in an OS X window. That interface,Īnd the virtual machine that underlies it, allows installation ofĪlternate operating systems that will run in an OS X window. The purpose of Parallels Desktop for Macintosh (PDM) is to provideĪccess to an Intel virtual machine on Intel-based Macs. Requirements: Intel-based Macintosh, Mac OS-X 10.4.6.