OSX - BootCamp - Vista - Spaces: Questions

Only part of this I would know about is Spaces.

In Spaces, when you leave a "space for" another the one you left will keep working. For example, it will keep rendering, downloading, or whatever you told it to do.

I hope this answers something.

 

Imagine spaces as having multiple monitors, but all using one screen.

Everything happens at the same time, but you can't access bootcamp from spaces, you still have to restart. You can run Fusion or Parallels in one space and OS X in another, though.

You can sleep your Mac with multiple spaces running, but remember, every pauses when you sleep you Mac, so nothing will get accomplished, it will just be waiting when you are done.

 

No. Spaces is exclusive to OSX. You would still have to restart to use bootcamp.
However, you could consider Parallels or Fusion if they can run the software you use, since they run under OS X and can use spaces.

 

You could get VMWare Fusion (or Parallels) and run Windows from within this in one space. This is what I do - so there's no need to relaunch.

When switching between spaces, all apps stay open, they don't close.

 

your question kinda confused me. spaces can be customized for certian applications. so if i want itunes and iphoto to always open in my 4th space, i can do that. but when i use spaces, i dont keep the application open all day. when i need it, i open it, and osx brings me to that space automatically.
and i dont think osx lets you use different backgrounds for different spaces

 

Spaces is a poor implementation of multiple desktops in Linux.

And to answer the OP. BootCamp = No Spaces.

 

You are putting way too much thought into what Spaces really is. Think of spaces as simply a huge desktop. Spaces has nothing to do with what programs are running, it is simply just more "real estate" for your monitor. The X Windowing System on unix and linux has had this functionality for ages.

 

Don't get too Spaces happy in terms of creating a lot desktops as it uses memory. I have 4GB of ram in my iMac and I generally use 4 Spaces but mostly 2 or 3 at a time. It's not recommended to keep applications running live in each Space such as games or DVD authoring as I mentioned earlier, it uses ram.
Running Windows and the VM program use a lot of system resources so again be cool on getting too Spaces happy, your Mac will slow down.

You cannot create multiple themes in Spaces, each space has the same desktop and wallpaper.

 

Your point?

 

Spaces For Windows

 

spaces only allows you to have multiple desktops of OSX. it doesn't hit resources at all.. i haven't noticed it...

what you can d though is use vmware fusion (may lose bit of performance) and have the vmware running in its own space.

alternatively use bootcamp but requires rebooting

im kinda in same situation as i need vista for Games i'm going bootcamp route as vmware doesnt support Direct X

 

Its not multiple desktops... the desktop is the same no matter in what space you are. Spaces just change the "Space" where all your windows are floating. Hope this makes sense...

And Spaces doesn't eat resources at all because only the active space is being rendered, while other apps are running as if they were simply "Hidden"

 

I didn't actually mean "Spaces" uses a lot of resources, I said that in reference to the OP mentioning about using several spaces. If he's running Windows and doing tasks such as Windows update and running several other windows in lots of spaces it does eat up resources. How could it not if programs are still running in other spaces?

 

Then its not Spaces that uses resources - its apps that are running. And they take as much resources when running in different spaces as if they would take when running in one space.