Coming in from the other side

[Palouse]

I bit the bullet--with my ancient Fujitsu tablet noebook dying I've invested in a 13" MBP with 8gig of ram and a 750 gig HD. It will be here next week.

I do have several scientific (and other) programs that are windows-only and so I will need to dual-boot the MBP. What advice can you give me re: Parallels, Fusion, Bootcamp, or other similar solutions to running Windows (I'll use Win 7, 64 bit).

For the record, it was my kids :Love: who first got me into an iPhone and :smile: now into a Mac---got to love 'em for keeping me upgraded!

Thanks.

 

[crazy]

your children are very wise......enjoy!:smile:

 

[Pa]

Nick, I'm pretty happy with VMWare Fusion. It runs as an application (virtual machine) under Mac OSX, so you can run Windows and Mac applications at the same time.

 

[ashman]

Welcome to the wonderful world of Apple. I have used both fusion and parallels and found fusion to be more of a memory hog then parallels but other then that they both do the same thing quite well. Bootcamp is an option but frankly I prefer booting up my windows VM inside Mac OSX whenever I need it rather then having to reboot and reboot etc.

 

[Palouse]

I just discovered the reboot habit while goggling around a bit. With 8 gig memory shouldn't' be much of a problem--I'm used to a 3gig win machine!

 

[Johnnymg]

I bit the bullet--with my ancient Fujitsu tablet noebook dying I've invested in a 13" MBP with 8gig of ram and a 750 gig HD. It will be here next week.

I do have several scientific (and other) programs that are windows-only and so I will need to dual-boot the MBP. What advice can you give me re: Parallels, Fusion, Bootcamp, or other similar solutions to running Windows (I'll use Win 7, 64 bit).

For the record, it was my kids :Love: who first got me into an iPhone and :smile: now into a Mac---got to love 'em for keeping me upgraded!

Thanks.

Unless you need to live-transfer you scientific data (files) to the Mac side I would HIGHLY recommend going with Bootcamp and running your Win programs in a 'native' OS environment. I've done the virtualization route and have come around to really liking the simplicity and reliability of running Windows in a native environment.

congrats with your new computer
JohnG

 

[Palouse]

Unless you need to live-transfer you scientific data (files) to the Mac side I would HIGHLY recommend going with Bootcamp and running your Win programs in a 'native' OS environment. I've done the virtualization route and have come around to really liking the simplicity and reliability of running Windows in a native environment.

congrats with your new computer
JohnG

John, so the non-bootcamp alternatives are complex and less reliable? Most of my live transfer needs would be cut/paste and otherwise exporting output and charts into Word. My photo processing will be unchanged since I use a 100% NX2 workflow (though I may have to include FastStone Viewer to the windows side!).!

What is a good EXIF reader for Mac--I don't believe PhotoME is for Macs.