I have a question, what do you guys recommend, bootcamp or vmware for my mac pro 2.66? I only have 1gb of ram and when I installed vmware it runs very slow, it worked better on my macbook pro with 2gb of ram, should I do a separate partition and run bootcamp? I want to ditch my pc completely but there are 2 programs I need to run on a pc. any help or suggestion is appreciate it. thank you.
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I agree, unless you game vmware should be fine. I use bootcamp, and can boot into it in vmware, so I get the best of both worlds. You really should have more RAM though...I mean a Mac Pro with 1GB, that's just sad...It would help a lot, especially for vmware.
Thank you so I will do vmware, I will also remove my 150GB raptor from my pc and install it as my os drive on the mac, I will keep the 3 500GB drives as storage and I already got (just today) another 4gb of ram 2*2GB sticks. so I will give vmware a try thanks all.
should I add more ram? I will have total of 5GB.
should I add more ram? I will have total of 5GB.
thank you all, I was thinking of doing a whole 8GB. is that overkill just photoshop and that is pretty much it. I am going to see what I get out of it with the 5GB first. thanks again.
I was at 5 GB for 6 months and never felt (never was) ram constrained. The dropping price became too much temptation for me and I recently got another two 2 GB sticks for 8 GB total. I retired to storage/backup my two original Apple supplied sticks.
I've got four empty ram slots though , so I'm not sure I'm done yet LOL
I've got four empty ram slots though , so I'm not sure I'm done yet LOL