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    VMWare Fusion - XP + Visual Studio

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Kryptonic, May 6, 2008.

  1. Kryptonic

    Kryptonic Notebook Consultant

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    Hi guys,

    as part of my shift to the "mac platform" im going to need to still develop applications with XP/Vista so i will need to virtualise my Windows O/S

    If i have 3gig on a 2.4ghz MacBook will performance good enough for developing, microsoft office, dreamweaver and other medium / high load tasks....

    Cheers guys on your thoughts
    Will
     
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    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    I develop in Microsoft Visual Studio under VMWare on my Macbook with 2GB RAM, 512MB dedicated to VMWare. Depending on the task you need to perform, you could be just fine. A Macbook is certainly powerful enough to run multiple instances of Visual Studio. However, if you have more intensive programs that require a lot of memory to compile, you would be much better off with a PC or a server which you can remotely log into.
     
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