HI everibody ,
I have also recently acquired a Mac book pro sandy 15" I7 Quad core 750 G hard disk , 2G2 processor speed and a licence of parallel and Window 7 pro 32bit
this is intented to run PC based software for electronics (Multisim)on a 27" Dell screen (same screen as Apple Cinema view, but with more connections possibilities and mat instead of brillant ) and I do not be sure the best way to do it !!
I do not if the topic is the right one , I am new into this forum, so please excuse me if it is not the right place and redirect me
Does my approach make sense
I will work in TRIPLE BOOT :
one for the main partition 10.6.6 450G
separate partition with 10.6.6 for emergency system and data
one for Bootcamp and Window 7
I would use PARALLEL for quick access and bootcamp for eavy processing when needed
so question are : 1° does it best to use the Bootcamp partition as PARALLEL virtual system
or does I need to make two different approach
2° how to rum Parallel 6 on a triple boot ( and if Bootcamp used For Parallel , how to rename the partition access either in PARALLEL and in Bootcamp
as I have been on the web searching for the way to do it , but it seems tricky as Bootcamp need to be disk nr 3 while the last one too !!) all the forum based answer I have seen are quite old one , maybe new material and new Parallel 6 may do the job easier now ?
3° either the Windows and the Multisim program are official software with key dedicated to the specific machine
as I intent to use both Parallel and Bootcamp ( and indead neither two at the same time !!) how to proceed as I have only one licence of each , while running on the same machine it may request me a licence for both (what is crazy as the same machine !!) so it is why I intent to use the bootcamp partition for Parallel too
but any other approach will be welcome !!
4° I would share my documents from MAC to Win session (fat 32 being write and read , but limited to 32 G)
while HTFS go upper but could not be direct access what bet and if fat 32 best , is 32G enough for my purpose ?
5° does either Parallel and Bootcamp support efficiently such high definition screen 27" 2540 x 1440 tpi at full resolution
6° does 2G or 4G Ram (within 8G ) the right choice for Parallel and how many processor to be selected in my case , which best ?
7° Should I need to exclude the Parallel ( & or Bootcamp ) partition from time machine to avoïd huge amount of disk space any time I go into the window partition ( as I have seen on some topics) if exclusion is needed , what best way to safegard the Window partitions
8° at some occasion i may have to use some XP program running on XP , does it make sense to use an external USB2 drive for running occasionnaly XP into Parallel?
As for now I have still a fresh system and already made a double partition OSX + OSX , not yet bootcamp
if I have to reformat the dish better to do it now than later
Should somebody be kind enough to answer my questions
thanks in advance
Pidu
