Parallels & Vista unbearably slow

Phaser · 6 Mar 2008 at 17:51

Decided to give Parallels a go today as I want to use Cool Edit (Only on Windows).

Got Vista on there, and i'm suprised at how slow everything is.

If you click the start menu for example, you have to wait about 30 seconds for the spinning disk icon to dissapear and the menu to pop up. I wasn't expecting amazing speeds but at the moment its pretty much unusable.

Got a 2.2ghz Core 2 Duo MacBook and 1GB RAM (Is the RAM my problem?) Ordered 4GB from Crucial yesterday so hopefully i'l notice a difference....

Phaser · 6 Mar 2008 at 17:59

Good to hear, is there anything I can do in the meantime in Vista to speed things up a little?

Phaser · 12 Mar 2008 at 18:20

OMG OMG OMG!

I've never used Parallels or Vista before so had no idea what to expect. :rolleyes:

Phaser · 12 Mar 2008 at 19:13

Ultimate. Although I whacked on my old copy of XP and it was slightly better.

My 4GB got delivered yesterday but I haven't got one of those bloody tiny screwdrivers to install it!

Phaser · 13 Mar 2008 at 12:25

J1nxy said:
Why waste the money on Ultimate when Premium Home for about £100 will do for running Vista on a Mac Pro. Most of the extra features under Ultimate the Mac does out the box.

It wasn't me who paid for it, I would have been happy with XP on there.

Where can I get these tiny screwdrivers from? Think it's the same one as you need for glasses etc?