Can the macbook pro handle it?

[IchBinMatt]

I am installing vmware fusion on my brand new macbook pro 2.4 ghz with 4gb ram. I want to install vista or xp. Can the macbook pro handle running vista through vmware? Would I have to turn the fancy transparent stuff off?

I am pretty sure it can, but vmware cannot.

I just want to be sure before I mess up tommorow.

 

[jayhawk11]

Dude....a SR MBP will eat Vista alive. Especially if you have 4GB of RAM.


You haven't seen the commercials? Its the fastest Vista laptop available

 

[synth3tik]

Oh Fo sure.

I have to run XP for work so I always have XP running in VMWare and it runs great. Sometime I get lagged up with the syslogd and mDNSresourcer resources. I think this has to do with the network at my job and NOT because of VMWare or XP.

 

[IchBinMatt]

Dude....a SR MBP will eat Vista alive. Especially if you have 4GB of RAM.


You haven't seen the commercials? Its the fastest Vista laptop available

I have seen the commercials, but they relate to boot camp running them.

How would VMware Fusion run them?

 

[TheStu]

I have seen the commercials, but they relate to boot camp running them.

How would VMware Fusion run them?

I ran Vista Business on my MacBook with 512MB RAM in VMWare Fusion. It ran just fine so long as I wasn't doing more than 1 thing... or playing solitaire. Vista's solitaire is 3D accelerated, and at the time, VMWare did not have DX9 support. No idea how it would do now, but I suspect that you will be alright.

 

[palmerized]

OMG yes -- the MacBook Pro will run Vista or XP awesomely.

I'd give Parallels a whirl too. It's awesome...

 

[steve31]

It handles vista better than most pc laptops do!!!!