Re: boot camp or parallels

[Charles Zwicky <cazwicky@earthlink.net>]

I use Windows XP on my Macbook... it's fine..!

>yes thank you. It's 8pm here in Geneva and I am out in the sticks. Will 
>get an
>adaptor tomorrow. Printed to PDF, now I can carry the file to my old 
>powerbook!
>
>Is using Windows XP home edition 2002 suitable. I just wan to run editors 
>for
>various pedals, synths?
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>Antony
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>----- Original Message ----
>From: Charles Zwicky <cazwicky@earthlink.net>
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Sent: Tue, July 20, 2010 7:44:41 PM
>Subject: Re: boot camp or parallels
>
>
>You can purchase a FW800 to FW400 adaptor.  I paid $10US for mine....
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>>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
>>
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>>----- 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
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>>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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