thanks for the continued response - just for the benefit of everyone - I found this discussion to be valuable:
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/virtualization/topic4247.html
the experiences shared are more down to earth and not in some "lab" somewhere.
it sounds like if I had 4GB of memory it would help tremendously. I've got to give up the upset I bought my macbook the day the new rev was released on Nov 1st so I'm maxed out at 2GB :/
I've been only running a few hours since my last post and I'm clear there is a performance issue when Parallels and my guest WinXP is running. Suspending the VM doesn't seem to help. I assume resources are still being taken even when suspended.
current memory breakdown without Parallels running:
* Free: 45MB
* Wired: 304MB
* Active: 1.12GB
* Inactive: 547MB
sounds pretty tight - right?
Last edited: Jun 17, 2008