Nicky Curtis
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Re:Hardware Question - 2007/02/15 22:47
Hi there Tac,
To be honest, although we run the show from macs, we use bootcamp to boot it into Windows XP and then run VMWare Workstation under that. The mac mini is a dual core 1.83 with 2GB of ram, all the VMs are run from an external 500GB MyBook (Firewire). For the podcast we just boot the mini into XP and fire up the VMs. For the latest podcasts, from Nicks place in Ashford, we use his iMac which I think is a dual core 2Ghz with 2GB of RAM, it is in Ashford which I am sure has a negative impact on its performance, just like it does with its owner, ask his wife 
For the client machine we use my 2Ghz macbook 2GB running Windows XP under parallels, it does run the screen capture software which can get pretty intensive hence the reason to run only one VM, also when the macbook gets overworked the fan kicks in and plays havoc with the microphone.
I do like parallels but I am pretty sure that VMWare runs the VMs faster and has more configuration options like snapshot, which I find invaluable. I am hoping that once VMWare fusion is released for the mac, we can ditch XP/Bootcamp/VMware Workstation for a cleaner solution.
I have just finished trialing Softgrid this week on my mac mini which requires 2 servers and 2 clients which all ran in VMWare surprisingly well. The VMs are configured as follows.
Server 1 - DC/TS 384MB
Server 2 - SQL/Softricity 512MB
Sequencer client (XP) - 512MB
Standard client (XP - 384MB
Just thought I would mention that before you splash out on a macbook pro!
Thanks for you feedback, and I hope you find the above useful.
Cheers,
Nicky
Post edited by: nickycurtis, at: 2007/02/15 22:49
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