users and windows partition

[tj38marlow]

Question from a soon to be newbie mac owner

Office 2011 for mac - worried for one household member that will share the machine - just started an MS Office course over 1 year...

If I set-up the 4 household members, admin and a guest

if later I go parallel - Do I need to set-up the windows users aswel for those that would use that side....

and then within each user - can I set-up space limits etc...

Have fusion - so assume progs/apps in ssd part of fusion drive -
and just partition the HD

Help appreciated

TJ38

 

[matreya]

Question from a soon to be newbie mac owner

Office 2011 for mac - worried for one household member that will share the machine - just started an MS Office course over 1 year...

If I set-up the 4 household members, admin and a guest

if later I go parallel - Do I need to set-up the windows users aswel for those that would use that side....

Yes, you'll need to setup users for the Windows setup because Parallels is letting you run a VIRTUAL MACHINE, so it runs like a separate computer with the OS of your choice.

and then within each user - can I set-up space limits etc...

I don't know if you can limit users' disk space in Windows...

Have fusion - so assume progs/apps in ssd part of fusion drive -
and just partition the HD

Now I'm wondering what you meant by parallel... if you mean using bootcamp so that the mac boots into OS X or Windows, then Windows will not see the SSD part of the fusion drive, the fusion drive is a construct of OS X only.

If you mean Parallels (which gives you a VIRTUAL MACHINE that can run Windows) then you don't need to partition anything.