Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Parallels 3.0 performance

We can now reliably run Windows on the Mac. As VMWare Fusion was released during the summer of last year, comparisons have been made against Parallels 3.0. Although each have their own advantages, I have noticed that Parallels 3.0 requires more system resources to run than older versions of Parallels.

I have successfully run a 175MB instance of Windows XP on a 500MB Macbook using Parallels 2.0. I can no longer run this in a usable mode under Leopard and Parallels 3.0.

Parallels recently released a server version, but that won't help me. Recent forum posts note that Parallels tools should be uninstalled then reinstalled after upgrading to increase performance.

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