I have to do mixed development using php, java and asp.net, and wanted asp.net running on a MAC. So first I tried out mono which is still running on my MAC book pro, but had huge problems installing monodevelop, so I though I need to get windows on the MAC to work with Visual Studio. I am pretty new with MAC, so read a bit about available options, the main options available are boot camp and parallels , First I tried using boot camp but then soon realized that it requires atleast service pack 2 of windowsXP as one CD, which I did not have, I had service pack 1 CD for windows XP and then separate CD for service pack 2, hence the next option was parallels.
Parallels is not a freeware so one has to buy a license for it, however I must say the license is worth it. I managed to install parallels in few minutes, and then windows XP on top of it with some effort, because of faulting windows XP CD’s not for any issues with parallels itself. Once installed I can work in windows as just one of the MAC windows which is great. Parallels desktop created drivers for windows and installed itself, so I did not do anything extra to enable the wireless access etc. The MAC menu bar shows applications running in windows as separate apps so I can directly switch into each, which is just beautiful. I did make few changes to the VM setup before I installed windows like assigning 1 GB of RAM to the VM instance and also assigning 40 GB of hard disk space to it.
Since my initial setup I have since installed Visual Studio, and SQL Server Professional edition on the VM and it is working great.
So overall so far my experience has been great, windows flies on my intel MAC book pro, and haven’t had a single crash or issue since I installed it, so I highly recommend using parallels.
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Parallels is great, a much better option than Bootcamp for my needs. You should have at least 2GB RAM on the MacBook Pro, though.
Also it’s a common misconception that Macintosh is abbreviated “MAC”. It’s actually just “Mac” and therefore “MacBook Pro.”
MAC is an acronym, as in “MAC address,” the Media Access Control address of a computer network card. Not to be a grammar cop, just letting you know for your own edification.
Once you write “Mac” and “MacBook” for a while, MAC will look strange to you, too. And you’ll see it quite commonly used among PC->Mac switchers.
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Thanks Tony for pointing out the difference between MAC and Mac, and yes you are 100% right, hence have altered the entry accordingly.