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Marcus Asmussen writes:
First of all, I would like to congratulate you on your recent purchase of a Mac Pro, I have been using one myself for the last 12 months after years of using windows based machines have never been happier with a computer than I have been with my Mac Pro. Just wanted to share 1 or 2 tips with you and maybe a few of your subscribers that may be holding out on a Mac purchase. One of the best programs I have been using I discovered through your site is VMware Virtual Desktop, which I have been running on my Leopard installation since its release. Prior to VMware I was using Boot-camp to run a few windows apps that I still use and PC based games. One of the great things about Leopard of course is Spaces, which allows you to run multiple desktop instances at once. While I use Spaces for everyday tasks, one of the most practical and useful things I now use spaces for is VMware virtual desktop.
Spaces allows me to keep a Full-Screen instance of windows open on my desktop while simultaneously switching back and forth using keyboard shortcuts between my Leopard desktop and my windows desktop. Also with its latest release; VMware will take your existing windows partition used for Boot-Camp and utilize that for your Virtual Desktop environment, so no other VMware specific partition is required. I still use Boot-Camp for gaming, but for every other task I once would boot into windows I now save so much time just by clicking over into VMware using Spaces, and with my Mac Pro Having room for 4 internal hard drives when setting up windows through Boot-Camp I have a separate internal hard drive for windows so no partitioning is required at all with boot-Camp Hope you or some of your subscribers find this tip useful.
P.S As for extra RAM, I am now running 5 gig at the moment and find that sufficient, as it stands right now Kingston RAM prices have dropped tremendously for the Mac Pro, still expensive by comparison to other pc system RAM, but far shy of Apple pricing. Enjoy your Mac Pro.
Yeah, I’m still tossed up on the memory… gotta order that soon.
4 Comments
Patrick Bailey
February 5th, 2008
at 4:08am
COMODO… Sherman DeForest wrote an article a few months ago recommending COMODO BO Clean and COMODO Antivirus. I purchased the antivirus and run the free BO Clean. I cannot get Vista updates to install now and get nothing out or ESET-the company behind COMODO. I cannot find an email address to communicaate with Sherman. DO you hve one? If there is a work around or solution to my issue could you let me know?
Many thanks!
Joshua (DarkenProject)
February 5th, 2008
at 8:46am
Running VMWare in a separate workspace? Sounds like a Linux adaptation to me; I’ve been doing this long before the Leopard release. I’ve set up a dual-boot system, using the real windows environment only for application development (don’t do much gaming on my laptop). Its nice to see Mac introduce this concept to its (much) larger user base though; virtual desktops are so useful and need to be adopted by the mainstream.
Adam Reyher
February 5th, 2008
at 11:16am
Hi Chris,
In my experience, your best bet would be to use Crucial’s memory. Kingston has served me extremely well over the years, but recently, I’ve been using Crucial exclusively. There’s just something about them manufacturing their own memory. The reliability and longterm performance of Crucial has never let me down.
Have fun with your Mac Pro!
- Adam
http://www.adamreyher.com
Bob Heroux
February 5th, 2008
at 1:12pm
I actually came upon this via a thread on this site last year about VM Fusion v. Parallels, so I’m hoping you’ll bear with a slight re-direct and hope I am not going over well trod ground. Still I, and lots of tech people who should know, have been stumped. Long story short: Via a browser, I can access a web-based time-clock program that I installed n a Windows XP Boot Camp set up on an Intel Mac (OSX 4.10+). On any browser I simply address the ip I assigned to that Mac running Boot Camp Windows XP when behind the router (192.168.***.*** series) when on LAN; and simply add port 80 to the ISP-assigned ip if operating externally. Works beautifully. So I expected the same in Parallels, but perhaps because Parallels sets up a NAT address (in he t10.***.***.*** realm), the browser complains it cannot find the LAN address, no matter if I manually change things to the 192.168.***.*** realm. Plus the cable modem router only wants to play and port assign in the 192.168.***.*** neighborhood. So… would VMFusion approach this the same way? (i.e., via a NAT translation? Or am I just missing something horribly obvious. Thanks for nay attention on this, much appreciated.
-bob
SocioBiblog
February 13th, 2008
at 8:01am
which Big Mac sits. It arrived today, and I am officially making my move away from Windows as my primary Operating System. It won’t be a perfect transition, of course. Related Content:Penryn Mac ProAsk Leo - My Mac is Back, and running WindowsBuilding a Mac Pro ProHow to Install a Hard Drive in an Apple Mac ProMac OS X: the Light or Dark Side?