[Framers] Bootcamp vs. Parallels or VM, WAS: FrameMaker and Salesforce

Mon Mar 14 09:45:24 PDT 2016

Thank you to everyone who responded. I will definitely take your comments into account when making my decision.

Pat

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From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+pat.christenson=morningstar.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan Litchfield
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Subject: Re: [Framers] Bootcamp vs. Parallels or VM, WAS: FrameMaker and Salesforce

Indeed yes. The more you can assign, the better your experience. When I am giong to do intensive work in FM, Visio, etc, I assign 8Gb.

Alan

On 10/03/16 10:31 am, Scott Prentice wrote:
> You do need more RAM for VMs. An easy rule of thumb is 4GB per OS .. 4 
> for the Mac, and 4 for each VM. I've got 16GB, and that works great 
> for
> 3 OSes.
>
> ..scott
>
>
>
> On 3/9/16 1:17 PM, John Sgammato wrote:
>> Hi Pat,
>> I got my MacBook Pro in November 2012.
>> First I asked for a Windows machine. That was rejected.
>> Then I tried VirtualBox, and that did not work well for a number of 
>> reasons that I no longer recall.
>> (I had plenty of support from well-meaning engineers.) Then one of 
>> those well-meaning engineers took my Mac home over the weekend and 
>> when I got it back it was great. He had configured Bootcamp to use 
>> virtually all the Mac resources and since then it has been a Windows 
>> machine, first Win7 and now Win10 with TCS 2015.
>> I was just talking to our IT guy. I am due for an upgrade, but I told 
>> him that I don't want it because my system ain't broke, so please 
>> don't fix it.
>> About 21 months ago, we added two more writers. They got Macs, but 
>> set up Parallels. Parallels was a resource hog and their systems 
>> never ran as well as my older Bootcamp one. In December, they 
>> switched to Bootcamp, with happy results.
>> I recommend Bootcamp over Parallels or VirtualBox for our kind of work.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Pat Christenson < 
>> Pat.Christenson at morningstar.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, John -
>>>
>>> I've run FrameMaker under both Parallels and VMware Fusion but have 
>>> only used in on a Windows platform for the last several years. I may 
>>> soon be in a position to use a Mac again. I'm curious about your 
>>> preference for Bootcamp (which I've never used). I would also love 
>>> to hear from other Framers on this topic.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Pat Christenson
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> John Sgammato wrote:
>>>
>>> In other news, we are also a Mac house. Over three years of 
>>> trial-and-error, we have determined that our best setup is Bootcamp 
>>> on the Mac, not Parallels and not VirtualMachine.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Robyn Chittister 
>>> <rchittister at vlocity.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone use FrameMaker and then integrate that documentation 
>>>> with Salesforce?
>>>>
>>>> I'm 1 of 1-1/2 technical writers at a start up that creates cloud 
>>>> apps for Salesforce. We are currently using Salesforce Knowledge to 
>>>> create and deliver our documentation. Knowledge is possibly the 
>>>> worst documentation tool I have ever used. We've been looking at 
>>>> various single-sourcing solutions, and we're down to MadCap Flare 
>>>> and FrameMaker.
>>>>
>>>> I'm a FrameMaker user from way back - I started with FM+SGML 5.5 in 
>>>> 1999. I developed templates and tools for FM+SGML and FM+XML from 
>>>> 1999-2005. I've used FM 12 in an unstructured environment, and am 
>>>> happy to see the improvements. I'm not sure how many improvements 
>>>> there have been in the structured environment, however. I've tried 
>>>> to contact Adobe, and have gotten a human being to say he'll give 
>>>> my questions to a solutions specialist to answer. Knowing Adobe, 
>>>> I'm not
>>> going to hold my breath.
>>>> My questions are:
>>>>
>>>>     - Is anyone here writing doc for Salesforce or Salesforce apps?
>>>> If so,
>>>>     what tools do you use?
>>>>     - Is there a good comparison of the most recent versions of 
>>>> Flare v.
>>> FM?
>>>>     The only ones I've been able to find are from several years ago.
>>>>     - Is anyone here using FM+XML (either v12 or 2015) who could 
>>>> answer
>>> some
>>>>     specific questions I have about it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We're a Mac house, so I can't just download the trial versions. We 
>>>> understand that we will need to get me set up with a VM and Windows 
>>>> to use the software we choose.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
>>>>
>>>> ~Robyn
>>>>
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