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by Steve Lowe

6/5/11 5:58:46 PM

VMWare Fusion here, too.

But I'm not a gamer, either.

If you go the VM route, give it as much RAM as you can. If you're buying a new iMac, get one that supports 16gb, and max it out. I'd think a quad-core i5 with 16gb RAM, bigass HDD, and the 27" display would run XP in a VM swimmingly.

Windows under OSX question - (mvitale) - (11) - June 5, 2011, 04:28:58 PM EDT

I use it in VMWare Fusion - (malraux) - June 5, 2011, 05:18:53 PM EDT

Vir[t]ual Box seems fine to me. - (Another Scott) - June 5, 2011, 07:52:53 PM EDT

VMWare Fusion here, too. - (Steve Lowe) - June 5, 2011, 05:58:46 PM EDT

VMWare fusion... - (folkert) - June 5, 2011, 06:03:16 PM EDT

I'm happy with Parallels - (SpiceWare) - (1) - June 5, 2011, 06:22:39 PM EDT

I gave up on Parallels - (malraux) - June 5, 2011, 07:42:47 PM EDT

Verdict: Miserable failure - (mvitale) - (4) - July 9, 2011, 12:27:05 AM EDT

Interesting. You might have a couple more options. - (Another Scott) - (1) - July 9, 2011, 08:56:29 AM EDT

Re: Interesting. You might have a couple more options. - (mvitale) - July 9, 2011, 11:56:23 AM EDT

Did you enable hardware acceleration? - (malraux) - (1) - July 9, 2011, 09:49:47 AM EDT

Re: Did you enable hardware acceleration? - (mvitale) - July 9, 2011, 11:59:11 AM EDT

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