Just out of curiosity, how much of a performance hit is it running windows on parallels compared to windows on bootcamp? Parallels is an emulator after all..

Thanks in advance for your feedback

Parallels is not emulator .. instead, it creates virtual machine .. slicing the CPU usage instead of emulating the CPU instructions.

I've been running Parallels since day one I have my MBP, well, office reason .. need to access office through VPN. I have no biggy problem with performance .. but then again, I only run office applications on Parallels.

Aside from games and apps that stress the Direct3D portion of Windows, there's very little noticeable performance loss when running Parallels. Wiarone explained it succintly. Make sure you have enough memory though, 1GB is the minimum IMO (512MB for Parallels and the rest for OSX).

I have a friend running Parrallels on his MacBook and it runs like a tortoise with 512MB RAM. Once he maxed out his RAM to 2Gig he able to boot WinXP via Parrallels within 20 secs. I was mightly impressed.

will it be fine if run parallels with 1.25MB ram on a macbook ?

MOAR RAM = MOAR EFFIECIENT use of processing powa.

yup.. that's what i have and it's fine... even on vista using aero

Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated. I don't game on my laptop so i guess i'm gonna hop on to parallels instead of having to reboot each time to run SPSS (some statistics program). Plus i'll be able to send offline messages easily if i have to via windows version of msn.

does the temperture gets hot like 60+ ?...

Dude, u sure u using parallels and enable aero? The current parallels don't support 3D accerelation. So no-no for aero..

I run parallels with 2G on XP and it is smooth. Yes the temp is 60+ and during burning goes to 80 which I think is serious issue with the MB.

Hi,

I'm new user of iMac 21". May I get an advice, ok for me to buy parallel now or wait for Leopord first. And may I know the price for Parallel. Thank.