Parallels Performances on HDD

[macNewbie02]

Hello,

I would like to know how welll does Windows 7 run on the new MacBook Pro on an HDD (5400 or 7200 RPM). I've seen on youtube great performance when configured via SSD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhu5lumSiVQ), but I can't afford SSD.

Thank you very much.

 

[dontpannic]

Runs fine!, 5.9 WEI.

 

[macNewbie02]

Runs fine!, 5.9 WEI.

Thank you for the answer. Which configuration of macpro do you have?

To other folks: how do other virtualization software perform? (VirtualBox, VMware)? Please write your configuration.

Thanks!

 

[dontpannic]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A406 Safari/7534.48.3)

I've got a late 2011 2.4Ghz i5, 8Gb RAM, 500Gb HDD.

Can run 3D games inside parallels pretty well but it runs windows itself very well indeed.

 

[Ccrew]

It runs fine on an HDD. Just like anything else, faster on a 7200rpm one than a 5400.

Slower to load obviously than on an SSD, but once it has the performance is certainly acceptable.

MacTech did a great shootout on VM performance and rated Parallels at the top of the pile. I use VMWare Fusion personally as it's compatible with my VMWare server infrastructure at work and I have no complaints, but I'm running 16gb memory with an SSD also

 

[macNewbie02]

quick update

Hey fellas,

I was in an Apple store today and tested the only machine which had parallels installed - it was late 2009 iMac, 27 Inch with i7 2.8GHz. I was very pleased with the speed and overall feel to the virtual machine as I felt it was running natively.

I would like to know is the new macbook pro 15 inch i7 2.2 processor stronger than the i7 2.8 of the late 2009 iMac I used? It could be a good indicator for me for the speed. Also it had 1T of HDD, if configured my macbook pro with 500GB of 7200RPM, will the HD speed be similar?

Thanks again.