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Parallels with XP for Microsoft Office and SAP?
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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I know there are a few threads about using parallels and other programs. But I was wondering if My mac will be able to handle running Parallels with XP to use Microsoft Office 2007 and SAP? I need to run these programs to for a Business technology class. I have the mac in my sig with Mac OS 10.4.11.
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32GB iPad 2 | 32GB iPhone 4 | 11' MacBook Air 1.6 i5, 4GB, 128GB SSD
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Yes. May be a bit painful on memory, but it will work.
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Thanks for the response.
Would you recommend parallels or the boot camp beta that I've read about in a few threads or something else? I don't want to upgrade to Leopard now if Snow Leopard is coming out as soon as the 1st quarter of 2009.
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Parallels or VMware... your apps don't really call for the hassle of BootCamp.
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Ok I didn't think so. I'll probably be going with parallels. I found other threads about partitions and saw that you need one for BootCamp. But do I need to make one for Parallels since its a virtual machine?
Or will it save everything to the mac harddrive?
And also will I be able to use a flash drive with Parallels?
Thanks for the help so far.
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You can use a file on your Mac partition as the virtual hard drive with Parallels or VMware. You can access data on a flash drive in Parallels/VMware if you share the folder.
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have you considered office for mac? its really not bad. I don't know what SAP is? if you ever want to play games or run 3d then bootcamp is the way to go but you can still use vmware with it.
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Originally Posted by mania 
have you considered office for mac? its really not bad. I don't know what SAP is? if you ever want to play games or run 3d then bootcamp is the way to go but you can still use vmware with it.
Office is bad if he gets 2008 and needs VBScript support.
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