I've been considering a mac since I heard that I can partition my harddrive with OSX & Vista. I need to keep Vista (or XP) for my design software.
I'm wondering if it is possible to use Spaces to access my windows partition. I know I can do it with a virtual machine software, but I'm afraid of losing speed. Somewhere I read that VMware has a trick to accessing your drive and this tool makes Parallels fairly weak. I know I can reboot to enter each OS, but I'm wondering how powerful Spaces actually is.
Can you put your mac to sleep when in spaces? And then return to your multiple desktops?
Can I have one space downloading music/video while I design in another space? Or- does each space only operate when open and merely 'save' where we left off when switching between spaces?
How heavy does Spaces hit your resources?
fwiw, I run Vista on a Dell (that I actually like) with Adobe Web Premium CS3and Trivantis' Lectora (the expensive authoring software for which I need Windows) My Adobe suite is also windows-based but I believe my files will be accessible in OSX... any further comments from Adobe designers switching to OSX from windows-based software? Will my windows-based software qualify me for an OSX upgrade to CS3.3? (I know I should ask Adobe that question)
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I'm wondering if it is possible to use Spaces to access my windows partition. I know I can do it with a virtual machine software, but I'm afraid of losing speed. Somewhere I read that VMware has a trick to accessing your drive and this tool makes Parallels fairly weak. I know I can reboot to enter each OS, but I'm wondering how powerful Spaces actually is.
Can you put your mac to sleep when in spaces? And then return to your multiple desktops?
Can I have one space downloading music/video while I design in another space? Or- does each space only operate when open and merely 'save' where we left off when switching between spaces?
How heavy does Spaces hit your resources?
fwiw, I run Vista on a Dell (that I actually like) with Adobe Web Premium CS3and Trivantis' Lectora (the expensive authoring software for which I need Windows) My Adobe suite is also windows-based but I believe my files will be accessible in OSX... any further comments from Adobe designers switching to OSX from windows-based software? Will my windows-based software qualify me for an OSX upgrade to CS3.3? (I know I should ask Adobe that question)
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