Going virtual

Posted on August 30, 2006
Filed Under All, Technology |

Parallels, the Mac OS X virtualization software that lets me run Windows XP on my Mac Mini, is awesome. With only 512 MB RAM (and the OS needs 128 MB for the video with XP installed) performance is perfectly usable. As hoped, the Mustek scanner’s Windows software is a bit less crash prone (albeit wierder) than the Mac OS 9 Color-It package. We managed 9 high-res scans of newsprint pages before it blew up (beyond task manager’s ability to kill). The 2 GB RAM upgrade is in the works…