Comments on: My Fastest and Easiest Windows 7 Install Yet — Snow Leopard Required http://gigaom.com/mobile/my-fastest-and-easiest-windows-7-install-yet-snow-leopard-required/ Sun, 27 May 2012 04:22:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mike Kovacs http://gigaom.com/mobile/my-fastest-and-easiest-windows-7-install-yet-snow-leopard-required/#comment-424862 Thu, 06 May 2010 20:39:07 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=43010#comment-424862 I intend to install Parallels 5 on my 2009 MacBook Pro (2.26 Ghz/4MB RAM) and run Windows 7. My question is whether I should run the 32-bit or 64-bit versions of Windows 7. From what I’ve read, the biggest difference seems to be the ability of the 64-bit version to address more than 3MB of RAM. Are there any other considerations? Would the 64-bit version run as well on 2MB as the 32-bit version would? If so, I’d probably go with the 64-bit version in anticipation of eventually upgrading the MB Pro to 8MB. Your thought? Thanks!

]]> By: Mikedaddy http://gigaom.com/mobile/my-fastest-and-easiest-windows-7-install-yet-snow-leopard-required/#comment-424861 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:12:25 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=43010#comment-424861 Can you use the win 7 pro upgrade to create the VM with parallels 5 on a Mac Pro laptop, or do you need full version?

]]> By: Joseph L Johnson http://gigaom.com/mobile/my-fastest-and-easiest-windows-7-install-yet-snow-leopard-required/#comment-424860 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:08:24 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=43010#comment-424860 Also, I forgot to say that I have had 15 “windows” computers since 1984. And I have purchased at least 3000 dollars of OS upgrades. I love this mac!

]]> By: Joseph L Johnson http://gigaom.com/mobile/my-fastest-and-easiest-windows-7-install-yet-snow-leopard-required/#comment-424859 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:06:35 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=43010#comment-424859 Yes, the mac works. I have purchased “parallels”, and installed windows 7, and windows 7 works better on the mac than it ever did on the windows computer. It sure installed a lot easier, also.

]]> By: EddieW http://gigaom.com/mobile/my-fastest-and-easiest-windows-7-install-yet-snow-leopard-required/#comment-424858 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:00:41 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=43010#comment-424858 Oh, I forgot. I have the Windows 7 64-bit version. If you have the 32-bit version, only allocate 3GB RAM to the Windows OS because that’s all it can use.

]]> By: EddieW http://gigaom.com/mobile/my-fastest-and-easiest-windows-7-install-yet-snow-leopard-required/#comment-424857 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:59:38 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=43010#comment-424857 On mine, I allocated 4GB RAM (1/2 for OS X and 1/2 for the VM) and assigned it to 2 processors. Seems to work fine for me…..

]]> By: EddieW http://gigaom.com/mobile/my-fastest-and-easiest-windows-7-install-yet-snow-leopard-required/#comment-424856 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:58:17 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=43010#comment-424856 On the site where you downloaded your DR files is an instruction link that tells you the command line you have to use to create the bootable ISO to move to the CD. You can’t simply copy over the files (though I read one article somewhere that said the writer used the Windows XCOPY command to move the files to the DVD — don’t know how that worked, though!); you have to use the command line or it won’t work.

]]> By: Ofer http://gigaom.com/mobile/my-fastest-and-easiest-windows-7-install-yet-snow-leopard-required/#comment-424855 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:55:07 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=43010#comment-424855 Did you ever figure this out? I’m having the same problem (downloaded Windows 7)

]]> By: andy http://gigaom.com/mobile/my-fastest-and-easiest-windows-7-install-yet-snow-leopard-required/#comment-424854 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:22:15 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=43010#comment-424854 sorry to all you advanced techies here, but i am newbie to mac and so far LOVE it, but /MUST run windows programs…(some CAD/CAM stuff i have the new parallels 5.0 but have no idea how to start and don’t want to f**k anything up. i got the 27″ quad core mac and can’t wait to use it to its full potential… any advice on where to find EASY way to do this??

i was told that i can take an image of my XP PC and simply load it on the mac…is this true??

someone PLEASE help

thank you

]]> By: Angela Adelle http://gigaom.com/mobile/my-fastest-and-easiest-windows-7-install-yet-snow-leopard-required/#comment-424853 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:50:26 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=43010#comment-424853 In the process of installing Windows 7 on Parallels virtual machine. I have a 3 week old MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM. What CPU number should I allocate? 1 or 2? And what about amount of RAM? 1024? 2048? More than that? Please help! I don’t know what to do here…

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