man please windows 7 on a mac is horrible !!!!

[iLog.Genius]

Glad to hear it. As I implied in earlier posts, I don't have any personal experience with running Unity on an MBP with 4 gig of RAM because I upgraded mine from 2 to 6. What I do know, though, is that 2 gig of RAM was woefully inadequate for Fusion 2 and Windows XP on my MBP, although I ran Windows apps only from the XP desktop in their (more or less) native environment. I didn't even try to run Fusion in Unity mode while I had only 2 gig of RAM. Others have reported that Unity creates a lot of problems with 4 gig of RAM, so I was encouraged to learn that you have found 4 gig of RAM sufficient to run Fusion in Unity. Are you running Fusion 3 and Windows 7? That's what I am now using.

Forgot to mention that. Currently using Fusion 3 with XP. I guess Windows 7 could use up a bit more RAM but some have said that Windows 7 isn't a resource hog but I personally can't verify that though it would make sense if it did. 2GB would be too low, 4GB is perfect if you're not doing anything intensive but if you an get more than 4GB, that would be ideal. I figured if anyone really needed the power of Windows, they would just use Boot Camp.

 

[gwsat]

Forgot to mention that. Currently using Fusion 3 with XP. I guess Windows 7 could use up a bit more RAM but some have said that Windows 7 isn't a resource hog but I personally can't verify that though it would make sense if it did. 2GB would be too low, 4GB is perfect if you're not doing anything intensive but if you an get more than 4GB, that would be ideal. I figured if anyone really needed the power of Windows, they would just use Boot Camp.

I agree that Apple's own Boot Camp would be the best bet for those who (1) want to run several demanding Windows apps at one time and (2) are not inconvenienced by having to shut down Windows and Boot Camp before using OS X apps. I didn't like Boot Camp and switched to Fusion because I needed Quicken for Windows to be available simultaneously with my OS X apps. If Quicken for Mac had not been the dog it was and, apparently, remains, I wouldn't have had to get involved in the Windows-Fusion quagmire in the first place. But I am in it now and can use the latest iteration of Quicken for Windows, a program that I have been using for more than 10 years.

 

[kickFlip]

Here's a guide that will help you choose which way to virtualize Win7 on your Macbook:

http://gizmodo.com/5487242/how-to-run-windows-in-os-x-the-right-way

 

[jamojamo]

I'm guessing this was an ID 10 T error.

Or a PEBKAC error.

 

[gwsat]

Here's a guide that will help you choose which way to virtualize Win7 on your Macbook:

http://gizmodo.com/5487242/how-to-run-windows-in-os-x-the-right-way

For the reasons I stated in my last post, Boot Camp didn't work for me. I then spent a long time agonizing over whether to get VMware Fusion or Parallels. Even after a lot of research I could not decide whether one was better than the other. Consequently, I more or less arbitrarily got Fusion 1, this was 2 years ago. Fusion 1 and 2 worked reasonably well running Windows XP Professional, although I had trouble with their stability when I had only 2 gig of RAM in my MBP. After upgrading the RAM to 6 gig I also upgraded to Fusion 3 and Windows 7. Also as noted in earlier posts, this combination has been terrific. I now run Fusion in Unity mode so that I can run Windows apps directly from the Snow Leopard dock. It has been absolutely stable and reasonably fast. I could not have asked for more.

 

[Dan73]

A Bootcamp install will have slower disk performance than installing on VMWare or (I think, as well) Parallels. Seems counter-intuitive, but that's the case. The 64-bit version is faster than the 32-bit, provided you give it sufficient RAM. (I've found 1.5GB is the sweet spot under VMWare

Hah what?

I think you need to do some research.