[Year 12 IT Apps] virutalising in MAC OS

[Mark Kelly]

PLEASE take notebook discussion elsewhere.

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Royce Williams wrote:
> Because it is easier for people who do not understand computers (92.76532% of teachers ) to operate that way rather than a dual boot situation. Especialy if it's just for one program eg Markbook. The other situation ,in the class room is just plain histerical
> 
> Royce Williams
> Sent from my AppleBerry
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> On 01/08/2008, at 10:40 PM, "Hutchison, Geoffrey G" <hutchison.geoffrey.g at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:hutchison.geoffrey.g at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
> 
> For the life of me, I don’t know why you would use a virtual environment to run Windows. The MacBooks are designed to be dual boot, with Windows installed on a second partition. There is no need to spend $’s on a licence for the virtual software, nor any worry about the Windows licencing. There is no site licence that covers Windows OS’s; just upgrades. (You will find that Windows available under “Work at Home” conditions is not permitted to be installed on DEEDC provided notebooks.)
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> We have been notified that a Windows XP Sp3 image for the MacBooks is on the way, but has been delayed by a Symantec conflict issue.
> 
> So, a little patience, all will be good, with either OS running native – i.e. quick without any issues. And under proper licencing arrangements.
> 
> cheers,
> Geoff Hutchison,
> SNR/IT Manager/Coordinator,
> McGuire College,
> Shepparton, Vic
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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Adam Barbary
> Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 8:16 PM
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] virutalising in MAC OS
> 
> Have tried both Parallels and VMware Fusion. I decided to go with Fusion, it seems to have an edge with performance. My IT department opted to spend money on a multi user license to cover all the Mac Users, can't complain about that.. Set your XP VM at 512MB, any more and the time to start and save increases. Check with your IT department as to the licensing issue for XP. If they don't have a site license that you can be covered by, Win XP used to cost around $35 for a teacher. To boost your Mac, may I suggest you max out your RAM, it is $100 well spent.
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> Adam Barbary
> Viewbank College
> 
> On 01/08/2008, at 5:38 PM, Russo, Frank R wrote:
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> The Dept agreed to ship a copy of XP with the Mac’s but that is yet to come….Parallels seems the best way to go !!!
> 
> Frank Russo
> ICT ~ Teaching & Learning
> Monterey Secondary College
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> From: <mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au> itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au> [<mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au>mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Andrew Grimshaw
> Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 2:08 PM
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] virutalising in MAC OS
> 
> hi all
> 
> As a new macbook user, Id like some advice about the best applications for virtualising XP from Mac OS
> 
> what have people been using?  any major bugs, etc?
> 
> thx
> 
> andrew grimshaw
> colac sec college
> 


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