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for the record, i have run various versions of vmware since late
2008 on a mac mini (2007 core duo w/2gigs of ram), a macbook (2008
white core 2 duo 4 gigs ram), and my imac (2008 core 2 duo w/4 gigs
of ram). no problems with vmware, windows, or equest on any of the
machines. winxp pro on the imac, win2k on the macbook and on the
mini. i tried parallels back in 2008 but found vmware more to my
liking. i've tried wine, and crossover office (as a beta tester)
for equest & not had any stable success in either case. from my
experience, despite not wanting to deal with windows on my mac,
vmware just works. just backup the virtual machine once it is set
up so if it gets corrupted you can restore the backup. and save all
of your work to a server that is backed up so when windows
eventually goes you don't lose all of your equest work.<br>
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On 2/7/12 6:25 PM, Keith Leadbetter wrote:
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<div>I agree with Andre. I have a similar setup: MacBook Pro, 2.53
GHz, 8GB RAM, etc. I have tried both VMWare Fusion and
Parallels. VMWare Fusion works best for me.</div>
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On Feb 7, 2012, at 7:58 PM, A Duurvoort <<a
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<div>My current setup: MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz Intel, 8GB RAM.
VMWare Fusion, Windows 7 x86. Runs AutoCad 2010, eQuest,
coil/fan selection, and Google sketchup (trying to learn the
EnergyPlus plugin! NOT EASY, is there a forum for that??)</div>
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Cheapest way I have found is to use a bootcamp partition to
run Windows XP 32-bit. XP Pro is my favorite windows flavor,
but Windows 7 (x86) will work fine also to run eQuest.
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<div>If you have some cash, VMWare Fusion works great,
better and faster than the other VM programs I've tried.
It can even run your existing bootcamp partition without
a reboot. using 32-bit OS seems to play better with
eQuest. </div>
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<div>Andre<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 7:00 AM,
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