MBA Owners -- Fusion/Parallels

[mkrad]

2Gb boot camp/emulation RAM limit

New MP with 16Gb RAM (further specs below), boot camp seems to limit RAM recognition to 2Gb. I have a work-critical program that requires WinXP for medical image manipulation and performs much better with more RAM; do parallels or fusion allow greater RAM recognition or am I going to have to wait for some Apple upgrade (firmware or otherwise) to recruit more of the RAM? Funny, they don't publicize the RAM limitation in any press or sales releases...

 

[paulyras]

Has anyone considered the possibility of putting WinXP on a thumb drive? Best Buy has a 16GB USB2.0 thumb drive for $187.

Two questions...

1) does anyone know if it's possible to use a flash drive with bootcamp?

2) would parallels (or fusion, but I know parallels better, so would likely stick with it) be painfully slow running from a USB flash drive? I know the hard drive itself in my computer is flash, but it doesn't have to go through the USB interface, so I have no idea about the relative speeds...

Thanks,

Paul