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I guess that dual boot is a bit more practical these days with the speed
of SSDs but I need to switch back and forward. I only use two Windows
programs - accounting and RDi. That’s it. Not worth rebooting and
Parallels doesn’t seem to eat that much resource. Once I get native RDi
I’ll switch accounting packages and won’t really need Windows at all.
Jon Paris
www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com
On Aug 15, 2016, at 10:04 AM, Richard Schoen <Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Vmware kicks up the juice consumption.
Ever thought about doing a dual boot ?
Somebody asked me that the other day and it almost sounds tempting since
sure if this works with Parallels ?
I'm still with VMware since I move images between Windows and Mac. Not
assessment. Given the choice I would use Parallels.
Regards,
Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com
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date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 08:43:41 -0500
from: "Jim Oberholtzer" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [PCTECH] OSX: VMWare or Parallels?
I still use VMWare on my MAC (since I have it) but I agree with Jon's
effectively forced a paid upgrade far more frequently than Parallels. That
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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
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From: PcTech [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2016 3:32 PM
To: PCTech At Midrange
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] OSX: VMWare or Parallels?
I gave up using VM Ware on my Mac for two reasons.
First their upgrade policy seems unfair to existing users and they
may have changed but I never revisited it because as far as I know they
have never changed the other issue I had ?
lump. That in turn chewed up a lot of time and space with Time Machine and
Which is that their C drive is seen by the Mac as one big amorphous
no way was I going to exclude it. Parallels treats the C drive as a
mountable image and all the files are individually visible in OSX. I find
that much more convenient.
customers whereas Parallels was more oriented to individual users. On the
It always struck me that VM Ware was more oriented towards corporate
rare occasions when I have had problems with Parallels their Twitter group
have resolved them really quickly. With VM Ware I had several support
issues and got very little help.
(PcTech) mailing list
Just my 10 cents worth.
Jon Paris
www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com
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