Which leads to one other line of inquiry: whether the official Service Pack 1 for Vista, scheduled for release Real Soon Now, speeds up the system as much as I've heard. I think the answer is - install Outlook under VMWare too, but we'll see how that goes.Īnd, watching to see which aspects of this machine - or of the MacMini I've also equipped with VMWare - could become as annoying as the slowness and unreliability of Vista now are. Next stages in the inquiry: what to do about the zillions of emails from the last decade-plus that I now have stored in (Windows-only) Outlook. But, now that I have VMWare going, I am more impressed than I expected with the ease of running any kind of program I want on this one machine. MacBook Air running WinXP, under VMWare, with "dock" of Mac program icons at the bottom:įrom relying on PCs but keeping up with Macs over the years, I know that both have shortcomings and that either can get the job done. (Details below.*) I will with relatively good cheer pony up my $80 to register the product - or $50, after a $30 rebate for previous purchasers of the rival Parallels. But VMWare, which I downloaded as a free 30-day trial product, did reply and gave me the right answer. I don't know about Parallels - even though I bought that program for full $80 retail at the Apple store in New York last month (it being the only one available), I never heard back on my requests to its tech support line. Problem now solved! And it proved not to have been VMWare's fault. (Was I going to load Vista? Let's be serious.) I couldn't get either of them actually to start up a session of Windows XP. Or that's what the two programs are supposed to do. I had been trying to install either VMWare Fusion or Parallels, the two systems that let you run Windows programs (on an Intel-powered Mac) side by side with Mac OS X. As reported a few days ago, my new MacBook Air - while undeniably svelte and beautiful, and while having surprisingly good battery life, and while generally performing in much snappier fashion than my Vista laptop - was giving me trouble in one big way.
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