Re: Laptops -dedicated to music only?

["L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

question:A lot of the new laptops are being now
offered with Win Vista,but some also with XP as an
option, would you buy with vista and replace it with
an xp version and update later to the vista one when
everything works?
Luis

--- Jon Southwood <jsouthwood@gmail.com> wrote:

> That shouldn't be a problem unless you're running
> Parallels while
> simultaneously trying to run the music stuff on the
> OS X side. If you
> normally have Parallels start when you log in, your
> best bet would probably
> be to have two users setup, one that launched
> Parallels at startup for your
> general/non-music stuff and a second user that would
> launch without
> Parallels. Then, Parallels isn't stealing resources
> when you want to do
> audio/music stuff. Of course, it might not even take
> all of that. You might
> just be able to quit Parallels and free up all the
> resources back to OS X.
> (I would hope so, but I'm not sure if Parallels
> leaves any background
> processes running when you quit.)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jon Southwood
> 
> On 6/27/07, Qua Veda <qua@oregon.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > This is what I expected,  I just thought I'd check
> to see.
> > I've been using a MacBookPro running WindowsXP in
> Parallels as part of a
> > pilot program at work. It occurred to me that if I
> bought my own
> > MacBookPro,
> > perhaps personal stuff could be run in
> Windows(Parallels), and music stuff
> > on the MacOS.    But I think there would be a
> problem with memory
> > allocation
> > etc so that you'd end up with neither OS taking
> full advantage of the
> > hardware.
> >
> > -Qua
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Krispen Hartung
> [mailto:khartung@cableone.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:40 AM
> > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> > Subject: Re: Laptops -dedicated to music only?
> >
> > Mine is music performance only as well, with the
> exception of accessing
> > the
> > internet for software updates and a few key
> forums, like max/msp, etc. I
> > don't change anything with the settings, so my
> virus checkers, etc, are
> > all
> > intact.
> >
> > I did, however, optimize my configuration for
> music applications, it's on
> > Sweetwater's website and thier PC optimization
> guide.
> >
> >
>
http://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/ts/detail.php?Index=30058
> >
> > Kris
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Qua Veda" <qua@oregon.com>
> > To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 10:17 AM
> > Subject: Laptops -dedicated to music only?
> >
> >
> > > Question for those of you who use laptops.
> > > Do you dedicate/optimize the laptop for use with
> music/audio/video only?
> > > (i.e. ,  no email, finances, other personal apps
> that you might use on a
> > > personal computer)
> > >
> > > -Qua
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 


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