From: /m 

btw, just stumbled across this:
http://www.macwindows.com/#630b




On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 10:03:40 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>Parallels has worked well for me with 2K but my needs for 2k are quite
>simple on the mini.
>
>They have a good support forum at
>
>http://forum.parallels.com/index.php
>
>I'm still waiting for the rumored VMware though as I have several canned
>apps that I'd like to transfer and VMware also quite a few preconfigured
>apps for the dl
>
>
>"/m"  wrote in message
>news:gutca2prv714ndikckvomh7sdsv0got89c{at}4ax.com...
>>
>> How's Parallels working for you?  I also equipped my Mac mini worth 2Gb,
>> planning to use VMs.   I'd like to get this bulky Windows off my
>> desktop...
>>
>>
>>  /m
>>
>> On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 08:58:11 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"

>> wrote:
>>
>>>George,
>>>
>>> Yep,  I have a Mac Mini in the living room for use as a media pc. I
>>>configured mine with 2GB of RAM though as I'm using the Parallels virtual
>>>software  ( www.parallels.com ) to run Win 2k in place of using the Apple
>>>dual boot XP/wga stuff.
>>>
>>> In use the mini's worked quite well but I had had problems with the
>>>scheduling of sleep mode ( doesn't always work for me) so now I just
>>>schedule a daily power off/on cycle ( never fails ). I have had several
>>>hangs when I had the mini set to turn my plasma display off after several
>>>hours of idle time ( it would never wake the display up again )
so I avoid
>>>that now.
>>>
>>>I'm using the Apple wireless keyboard but ditched the Apple
wireless mouse
>>>for Logitech 2-button ( makes life easier )
>>>
>>>Apple just released the 10.4.7 software update which I applied last night
>>>so
>>>maybe the sleep/saver glitches are gone
>>>
>>>As a Mac neophyte I found the O'Reilly book 'Switching to the Mac Tiger
>>>Edition' by Progue and Goldstein quite useful
>>>
>>>I had some problems finding a usable 'universal'/intel AC3 codec and
>>>finding
>>>the usable DivX software ( had to use the beta ) but they've
just announce
>>>the 'universal' version of 6.5.1 on 6/29 ( haven't tried it yet )
>>>
>>> I've been using http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/  and
>>>http://www.versiontracker.com/macintel/ to locate software for the mini.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>"George Sherwood"  wrote
in message
>>>news:44a6208c{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> Rich,
>>>>    Did I remember correctly that you recently bought a Mac?  I am
>>>> seriously moving in that direction and was wondering what 
you purchased
>>>> and how it has worked?  I was thinking of the Mac Mini
with 1GB RAM and
>>>> 100 GB HardDrive.
>>>>
>>>> George
>>>>
>>>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote
in message
>>>> news:44a55c3b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>> Tried to go onto the wga forum and received this
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Your user acount has been banned. Visit here for more info.
>>>>>
>>>>>
-----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> Naturally the link to visit has nothing to do with the banning
>>>>>
>>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?WS=communities
>>>>>
>>>>> I reckon they only wish happy news
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>

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