Comments on: .NET Development on a Mac – Fusion or Parallels? http://www.marcuswhitworth.com/2009/09/dotnet-development-on-a-mac-fusion-or-parallels/ Marcus Whitworth's tech blog – .NET, C#, Silverlight, WPF, Flex…etc, etc Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:00:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marcus http://www.marcuswhitworth.com/2009/09/dotnet-development-on-a-mac-fusion-or-parallels/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Marcus Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:23:51 +0000 http://www.marcuswhitworth.com/?p=34#comment-3 I'm running 10.5.8, and Windows 7 64-bit (I originally went for 64 bit due to <a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2009/01/windows-7-on-mac-with-vmware-fusion-a-practical-guide.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">a note on the VMware blog</a> noting some people were getting better performance out of 64-bit). Do you have enough RAM? You could always install under Bootcamp, then get Parallels to just mount your Bootcamp partition - that way it's potentially the best of both worlds. For more intensive work you can run natively, for regular stuff just run in the VM. Was the 'Slow Leopard' pun intentional? :) I’m running 10.5.8, and Windows 7 64-bit (I originally went for 64 bit due to a note on the VMware blog noting some people were getting better performance out of 64-bit). Do you have enough RAM? You could always install under Bootcamp, then get Parallels to just mount your Bootcamp partition – that way it’s potentially the best of both worlds. For more intensive work you can run natively, for regular stuff just run in the VM.

Was the ‘Slow Leopard’ pun intentional? :)

]]> By: Danish Munir http://www.marcuswhitworth.com/2009/09/dotnet-development-on-a-mac-fusion-or-parallels/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Danish Munir Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:52:15 +0000 http://www.marcuswhitworth.com/?p=34#comment-2 Thanks for sharing that. Where you using 10.5 or 10.6? I'm trying the same thing on a brand new Macbook Pro 15" 2.53 Ghz running Slow Leopard and both Parallels and Fusion are painfully slow. I've tried both Win 7 and Win Xp. Whats a developer to do? Thanks for sharing that.
Where you using 10.5 or 10.6? I’m trying the same thing on a brand new Macbook Pro 15″ 2.53 Ghz running Slow Leopard and both Parallels and Fusion are painfully slow. I’ve tried both Win 7 and Win Xp.

Whats a developer to do?

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