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Try getting an application like smcFanControl (freeware.) It does a better job then the default fan management for keeping the temperature down. It allows custom settings for min. fan speeds, and maximum temperature thresholds that it attempts to abide by. You should be careful with it...

Like the other response says, some things you can try: Get the OS X Cisco VPN Client (much less painful then the Windows Client. You can get a better front-end for it too such as the freeware app Shimo.) And give your Windows VM a NAT'd connection (such that all its traffic will go through...

Parallels running in OS X is doing all of the hardware emulation, giving OS X a healthy amount of RAM is going to increase performance of both OS X and XP

Age old excuse? Debug logging on a large scale project is a HUGE bane on performance. If I turn on debug on even half of ta medium-sized application I currently am involved with at work it slows to to less then 50% performance, or worse. Logging suites generally have transactionality...

Nope.. no cool parallels tools for Linux. I've personally found linux support to work pretty well, you just can't drag & drop files (for obvious filesystem reasons) and can't copy/paste between the VM and host OS X. I run Ubuntu regularly, and have found the trackpad and two-finger scrolling...

Be sure that the ethernet adapter in windows has been properly configured... It needs to not only obtain an IP automatically through DHCP, but also needs to automatically detect other things (Gateway, DNS servers etc.) This should all be the default settings in Windows XP SP2 though...

There is a program called rEFIt: http://refit.sourceforge.net/ This program esentially replaces the apple boot loader (option/alt at startup.) Don't be scared by this, it doesnt replace it, it just takes place after the apple boot loader would (if you wanted to use the apple boot loader, you...

I haven't checked just now, but I seem to remember that you need to boot windows from Parallels to be able to uninstall Parallels Tools from Add/Remove programs. Just a thought, may want to give it a shot. I know I've seen it there, and I'm 99% sure it's only when you are running it through...

Not to sound like a pest, but you can't just say "here.. I have 2GB of ram Firefox, use it all and startup as fast as possible." What happens if 2GB of ram has been allocated to firefox, mail and say.. itunes. Now i try to open a ridiculously large file in Photoshop; before photoshop can even...

Also, being owned by a large parent company doesn't mean anything. Similarly our company was purchased by a worldwide financial software company many years ago, yet we still operate in a small independant office with ~ 5 local developers and (unfortunately) use a overseas team of 4-6. We are...

Regardless, how familiar are you with what they are attempting to do? They want to appease the needs (or should I say desires) of the users on these forums. "Boot Camp" support? If anyone remembers, 1970 was a rock solid build. Coherence and boot camp integration have essentially killed...

I am very pleased with the product. I think many people here are jumping to conclusions about Parallels. No one seems to keep in mind that Parallels is a small company and Parallels Desktop for Mac is still an infant program trying to fill some very big shoes. For who they are, and what...

I've found that with 2GB of ram, if you plan to do a lot of work in both operating systems that 728MB for Windows XP is just about perfect. OS X is a memory hog and will use as much as is free whenever it can... the more you can reserve for OS X the more responsive your system will be...

What filesystem is the external drive? I have not yet tried to run a VM from an external drive (which I am going to try soon,) but I have tried to back one up. It is a regular Seagate external USB 2.0 drive that came formatted as FAT32. Well... FAT32 doesn't support large files (I forget...

Been using parallels since day 1 of the first beta... Anywhere from 1 to 10 hours a day, for light personal use and heavy development work. I have a regular Core Duo MBP that have much worse battery life then the newer C2D's, and I can still get 2.5-3 hours of battery life without parallels...

AVG is good. No need for all the fancy active virus scanning though, I've never heard of a worse way to waste your memory and cpu utilization. If you use a good firewall (ZoneLabs Zone Alarm is a great free firewall) and dont allow anything inbound/outbound access that shouldnt have it...

I think the 2nd reply here is referring to a different issue. When you start up a boot camp VM it has a overlay that says "warning do not perform any operations ... may result in data loss ... loading parallels tools" etc. To the best of my knowledge, when you use a boot camp VM, parallels...

They're different types of filesystems... I'm sure with this global sharing thing, Parallels has some type of interpreter that aims to alleviate this, but I wouldn't think it would be so simple as to run a binary off of a different filesystem then what the OS that is attempting to run the...

MacBook Pro Core Duo 1.83Ghz with 2GB RAM First of all, of course you will have "full access" to the RAM and CPU's when running XP in Boot Camp. Boot Camp is simply a program that safely partitions your drive and modifies the EFI boot loader to accomodate Windows XP. Once this is done, its...

I've had my MBP since June 06... I am a also a switcher, my first Mac ever. 15.4" MBP, 1.84GHz Core Duo with 2GB of RAM. Ever since Parallels had their first beta, I have been using their software. I love it, it works great... and in that time I have finished school and got a job as a...