Soliciting hardware recommendations

[Peter Gold]

Hi, Donna:

You can postpone buying Windows by installing Windows 7 Release
Candidate 1 public beta. I'm using this with Fusion 2 and TCS2 on a
2.4gHz MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.7 (latest update to "Leopard") No
significant problems in FM 9.x and Acrobat 9.x in the TCS2. Initially
I had problems with screen rewriting. Mostly this was due to setting
the Fusion memory amount higher than needed (1.0 GB seems sufficient),
and also not having enough system RAM; I had 3 GB, which left only 2
GB for the Mac OS. Replacing my 1 GB RAM chip with a 2 GB chip from
Other World Computing for around $30, gave back 3 GB for for Mac OS X,
and retained 1 GB for Fusion 2.

Jenny: you might want to look at Google's Calendar.

HTH

Regards,

Peter
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Jenny Greenleaf<jgreenleaf at mac.com> wrote:
> I am running TCS in VMWare Fusion on a 2.8 GHz Mac. It works great.
> Rock solid. Crashes less than most pure Windows machines I've used. In
> fact, I don't think Windows has ever crashed. Frame has a few times,
> but the patches fixed that.
>
> You can try most of this before making a commitment. You can download
> a 30-day trial of Fusion and obtain a 30-day trial of TCS (DVD). You
> do have to buy a Windows XP license. I just bought one at Fry's. The
> process to create a VM and load Windows is pretty simple.
>
> I work on-site at my client's. I bring in my laptop, hook up to the
> client's network. It was a bit of a hassle configuring printers, but
> other than that I haven't had any problems.  I connect to shared
> drives, point my Mac Mail client at their Exchange server. I don't
> have great calendaring ability, but I don't want to buy Office for
> Windows, and I don't want to mess with Entourage.
>
> Jenny
>
>
>
> On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:54 AM, D L Reynolds wrote:
>
>> First of all, you folks are the best. Within minutes of posting, I
>> was getting helpful responses.
>>
>> Some of you have suggested I run Windows on my beloved Mac. I've been
>> hesitant to do that, fearful that it might be buggy or cranky in some
>> way. From what I'm hearing, that isn't the case. So, one last
>> question --
>>
>> Are any of you running the Adobe Technical Communications Suite on a
>> Mac > VMWare Fusion > Windows XP? I'd love to go this route if it's
>> reliable. And if I get reports that TCS is stable in this
>> environment, the Windows box is heading for the dumpster. (For the
>> record, I'm still running FM8 and will be for the foreseeable future.)
>>
>> Again, most sincere thanks to all of you. You are amazing!
>>
>>    --Donna Reynolds
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