Parallels on 1GB MacBook is not really enough.

[boneca]

Just got my MacBook couple days ago: White, 2GHz C2D, 80GB HD, 1GB RAM. Installed Parallels last night and Vista Home Premium. I did express install so all the setting were set automatically. Parallels allocated 8GB of HD and 512MB of RAM to Vista.
I have to say that performance while running Vista is pretty slow on both sides. I guess 512MB is not really enough for ether of OS.
Installation was flawless.
I ordered 2GB of G.Skill RAM from NewEgg last night and hope that it will increase the performance.

boneca

 

[Allotriophagy]

I have 2Gb on my 24" iMac and Parallels with XP is still...sluggish.

 

[netdog]

I have the same iMac with the same 2GB and find it runs very well. I also find that it runs very well on my MB CD with 2GB. 1GB would not be enough.

 

[72930]

Ooh. Aah. Home premium isn't really allowed in Parallels...

I am kinda pushing this as I am irritated, but please visit my thread with a problem I have with it...

I have 2Gb on my 24" iMac and Parallels with XP is still...sluggish.

How much RAM have you allocated? , as it really shouldn't be...

 

[Allotriophagy]

512 or something. It doesn't matter now as I just run XP in Bootcamp now.

 

[boneca]

Ooh. Aah. Home premium isn't really allowed in Parallels...

I am kinda pushing this as I am irritated, but please visit my thread with a problem I have with it...

I guess I don't really understand what you trying to say here?
btw Vista never asked me for a password while installing, only parallels asked. So Vista assumes that I'm admin and never asked me for any kind of confiramtions...

 

[72930]

512 or something. It doesn't matter now as I just run XP in Bootcamp now.

I reccomend downloading the latest Parallels trial, and running from your BootCamp partition. Give it around 750MB RAM...

 

[boneca]

512 or something. It doesn't matter now as I just run XP in Bootcamp now.

that's what I have right now 512MB for Vista and this is not enough (should be enough for XP but still low) I assume u have no problems with OSX with 1.5GB.
Anyway give XP 1GB and I assume it will work better.

 

[rogersmj]

I run XP constantly in Parallels ever since I got 2GB of RAM in my iMac, with 384MB devoted to XP. It runs great. Remember when XP came out a top of the line computer had no more than 256MB of RAM. As long as you're only running a couple apps 256MB-512MB should be plenty.

 

[failsafe1]

Do you have XP anywhere? This could be a case of VISTA needing more resource than you have.

 

[MacVault]

VMware runs better than Parallels with 1GB

I tried Parallels too on my MacBook C2D 1GB. Then I tried VMware Fusion and it seems to me that VMware manages the memory better, or for some reason doesn't seem to make the OS X envrionment so slow when switching between environments. Parallels is nice, but I'm really looking forward to the official VMware Fusion release.