Mac :: XP Or Windows 7 - Which Required Less Memory?
Dec 11, 2010
What would be the best Windows OS for me to buy for a I'll be using it mainly to run some online poker third party software that can only run with a windows OS. A pro on youtube said he decided to use XP for his MAC since it required less memory. However his article was in 2009, so I'm not sure if Windows 7 would be better and more up to date. I'll be using parallels as well. My biggest concern is slowing up my computer or not having it run smooth. Should I get XP or windows 7? Please be specific. 32 or 64 bit, and what version, Home, Business, Ultra, etc.
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Sep 15, 2009
I just purchased a new iMac (2.66 c2d & 4gb of ram), Parallels 4, and Windows XP. I would like to get great performance whenever I use Windows XP and would like to know which installation procedure would help accomplish that.
Would Parallels provide me with a better user experience by installing Windows directly via Parallels OR by having Parallels utilizing a Boot Camp Partition? Which is better and why? Also, how much memory should I allocate to Parallels/Windows XP?
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May 9, 2012
I am trying to install Lion and i continue to receive a message in the app store that says, your request could not be completed, lion requires 2 GB of memory. I have more than 50 GB available.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jan 13, 2010
When reading the setup guide for bootcamp, the page that lists what you need for the process says "Windows XP Home Edition or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later" is required...However, the installation disk that came with my Windows XP reads Service Pack 1, Version 2002.What should I do? Can I proceed with Service Pack 1? If not, how do I get service pack 2?
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Dec 16, 2009
I just got a new aluminum macbook equipped with Snow Leopard. I want to use bootcamp to make a partition for Windows 7 but I don't know how to back it up. I currently use time machine to back up my Mac hard drive using a 250G external hard drive but I've recently heard and read that backing up a windows partition requires more software.
I have heard about MacDrive/CrossOver, MacFUSE/NTFS-3G, Fusion/Parallels, Carbon Copy Cloner and even this post http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=785376 but I don't know what I need and what I don't. Thus my question is what do I need to get to back up my windows partition.
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Mar 7, 2009
I have the Windows XP SP1 disk that came with my old computer. I know that OEM disks don't work, but i successfully install Windows onto bootcamp every time i try, and it works perfectly. The only thing is, I can't install the bootcamp drivers which let me access wifi because i don't have sp2. I can't slipstream, because the disk has updates integrated inside of it, and whenever I try to install SP2 from the sp2 install file i dl'd from the microsoft site, it always gives me a "4 additional megabytes required" error. I added 5 gigabytes. and it still has this error.
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Oct 8, 2010
I have the new 15 MBP and just installed windows vista 32bit on bootcamp 3.0. I cant get connect with my internet wireless or ethernet. It states that I need a network adapter NIC. Where can I go to download it? also the sound problem as well, no sound in windows. What steps to take???
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Jan 22, 2010
A question about windows 7 and a Mac pro 3.1 edition 2008. I have installed windows 7 and all is fine and dandy everything works, except in the bottom right hand corner there the error flag showing on the tool bar.
This is the error.
Apple Memory Controller GPE event is not compatible with windows 7.
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Feb 15, 2009
is it possible increasing either on boot camp?
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Aug 26, 2010
I installed Windows 7 32-bit with bootcamp on a 2010 15 inch MBP with 256mb 330m Gt.
However, Windows 7 reports that 2.18 Gb out of the 4 Gb is usuable How is that even possible since the GPU has so little memory onboard?
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Sep 22, 2009
Is it possible? or will I have to delete the partition and start over. 32 gb is just not enough I figured out.
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Oct 22, 2009
I've partitioned my 8GB USB memory stick using Disk Utility in Snow Leopard and gave it the format of MS-DOS(FAT). It completes successfully, and works within Snow Leopard however when I plug it into Windows, it says its unformatted and needs formatting. It only gives me the option to format 200MB!!! What is going on? I know formatting more than 2GB in FAT is impossible or something but I did it with my external HDD and it works perfectly in Windows.
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Apr 14, 2010
So I have a MacBook 4,1 with Windows 7 32bit installed via bootcamp. I would install 64bit however at the current time the drivers don't exist for older Macbooks for Windows 7. Anyways, I have 4GB of RAM installed and as most are aware, 32bit Windows only recognizes like 3.5GB or RAM. For some reason my Windows 7 tells me I only have 3.0GB... but that is beside the point. I want 4GB useable. Back when I had Windows XP installed, I remember enabling PAE support to allow for using 4GB... however I don't remember how I did it and I'm also sure it's a bit different in Windows 7. So long story short, anyone know how to enable PAE in Windows 7 so I can utilize 4GB of RAM? Also I've heard there are some issues even if you can get this working.
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Oct 22, 2009
Does changing the paging file (virtual memory) in Win Xp which I installed using bootcamp have any effect on my OSX installation? Can it impact the speed of my OSX (not my Windows)?
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Jan 20, 2010
I installed win 7 Home Premium, and I am being robbed of my ram because I can't change the shared video memory settings. Does anyone have a solution to this? I have the iMac with the ATI 4670 so I already have plenty of VRAM for what I do.
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May 1, 2012
I have a Macbook Pro 13" late 2011 , and installed windows 7 ultimate through bootcamp 4. I downloaded windows support deriver through bootcamp and installed all drivers
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Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Late 2011 13''
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Aug 10, 2009
i have 4 gb of ram, and would like to increase the shared video memory in windows 7, that i am using via boot camp. i know you can do it using the bios, but because there is no bios, is there any program that emulates the bios for boot camp, or another solution to do this?
then, why does windows 7 read just 3 gb of ram, when i have 4?
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Oct 1, 2009
I've had my iMac for just under a week now, and I wanted to play some games, so I did a Time Machine backup, and ran BootCamp. Vista install disk wouldnt work, so I used my copy of the Windows 7 RC1 32bit. That worked fine, its installed and working just fine, but when I went to check what it would show under "System" in the control panel, it shows my memory as 4.00GB and says 2.73GB useable. Is this normal? I know that 32 bit cuts off memory at around 3.23GB, and I was under the impression with Windows 7 and Vista SP1 the limitation was supposed to be moved to 4GB. Is this something I should be worried about? Also, I get some really bad lag spikes on Windows.
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May 26, 2012
Why can't copy from usb memory stick ntfs format from windows ?? I try a second file 7,53gb but still error.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Aug 26, 2010
I have a iMac DV G3/500 (Special Edition) from summer 2000. Anyway, I am using Mac OS 10.2.8. Recently, my start up disk's memory has gone done from 1.2 GB available free space to 668MB (currently). I haven't saved anything on this disk so I can not understand why this memory has dissappeared. I have also had icons on the start up menu disappear. Could someone please tell me how I can restore the missing memory?
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Oct 16, 2009
I have a Black MacBook (Early 2008). I think that I still have the factory standard RAM sticks (I bought the Mac used from a friend). I noticed today that I am running on only one gig of RAM even though I have two gigs of memory.
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Mar 21, 2009
I just bought a early 2009 MAC Pro and it came with 3GB of RAM, I ordered 3 2GB sticks of memory to replace the 3 1GB sticks that I had in there from Kingston. I turned off the unit, I popped the little levers and pulled the memory out of slot 1, 2, 3 and then replaced the memory with the new Kingston in slot 1, 2, 3
One of the sticks in is not working at all and I get the RED LED light no matter what slot I move that chip to. So I am running on 2 of the new Kingston memory chips.
Can I mix the memory and add the 1GB into slot 3 and 4 with slot 1 and 2 full of 2GB chips?
Also how to I run the memory utility again? I went to /system/Library/CoreServices/ and then I see the program Memory Slot Utility.app
How do I run this? I'm used to no spaces and I type ./then program name
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Apr 1, 2008
To all who've had at least a month with their MBAs, just curious to know how much space is still left on your drives?And what accounts for the largest portion of the used space?
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Feb 5, 2009
Is it possible to connect an aluminum Macbook to a non-HD tv? I don't necessarily need sound.
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Aug 31, 2009
To run parallels do i need to buy parallels & windows 7 software? What did you do?
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Dec 1, 2009
Im using macbook. I would like to connect my macbook with TV for watch all my photos and videos.
Please let us know, what are necessary accessories required so i will decide for purchase
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Mar 18, 2012
A required codec isn't available error when i try to watch a movie on my iMac
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Nov 15, 2009
I've just updated the os to 10.6.2 and my 16gb mac pro 1,1 only shows 8gb in the system profiler. The memory tab shows they're all working correctly but size says "2gb" where should be "4gb".
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Feb 4, 2009
I just purchased a new Mac Pro (); however, I was a little disappointed with the sound card for a $3000 machine. I was previously using an older home-built PC with a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 PCI sound card. Would I be able to swap this sound card into my Mac Pro? I'm not looking to improve the sound quality so much; rather I'd just like to use all of my 5.1 speakers. I figure I've paid for 5.1 speakers, so I may as well use all of them instead of the 2.1 I'm limited to with the ports built in on the Mac Pro.
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Jun 15, 2009
The Hotmail account has a a triangle next to the name and an alert pops up saying: "Could not connect to 'Hotmail' Access to Hotmail via Outlook and Outlook Express now requires a subscription. Please sign up at [URL]... I've been to the site but I don't see anything that has to do with e-mail, just messenger.
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