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.