Re: boot camp or parallels

[Charles Zwicky <cazwicky@earthlink.net>]

You can purchase a FW800 to FW400 adaptor.  I paid $10US for mine....


>Per,
>how are you doing?
>I am looking at the bootcamp installer and cannot print the manual from 
>my new
>Imac because I have a firewire printer with firewire 400, Imac only 
>has forewire
>800:) I do not see any option to create a partition in FAT32 in the 
>bootcamp
>utility. Did you use another uitlity to create your partition. Does 
>the bootcamp
>installer offer more than creating a partition?
>
>Antony Hequet
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Sent: Mon, July 12, 2010 4:26:22 PM
>Subject: Re: boot camp or parallels
>
>Recommendations about installing boot camp should be to create a
>partition big enough for the windows processes you want to run in
>there. A trick I like myself is to format the Windows partition in FAT
>(or is it FAT32?) which can be worked as any Mac OS X file format when
>you have booted through OSX and need some stuff you did when in
>Windows. I've even used sampling libraries in the W partition that
>worked well with samplers under both Win as OS X. I use an old OEM
>version of Win XP with only the service pack 2 and no other Microsoft
>updates and this has worked very well. I have no experience to share
>regarding Vista or Win7 for audio.
>
>I see only one reason for using parallels instead of boot camp and
>that is if you think that it is more important to have an instant
>Windows access from the Mac side than to have an audio optimized
>system.
>
>Greetings from Sweden
>
>Per Boysen
>www.boysen.se
>www.perboysen.com
>www.looproom.com internet music hub
>
>
>
>On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:40 PM,  <antonyhequet@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>  need to run windows to use PC software such as Gordius Little Giant 
>editor,
>>  Spectralis sampler/synth/seq editor, anyway a bunch of editor librarian
>>  software. Any recomendations about installing boot camp? Any reason to 
>use
>>  parallels instead of bootcamp?
>
>
>


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