[adam79]

I have a Macbook Pro that I use w/ Pro Tools LE. I'm thinking of buying
Parallels. To anyone that has the program, does it cause any issues with
Pro Tools?

thanks,
adam

[Michael Dines[_2_]]

I use VM Ware Fusion (same as Parallels, which I've also got), on a Mac
Mini with 2GB of ram Fusion starts using the the Hard Drive for virtual
memory (since you're running a whole different os as well as OSX, that's
not surprising). I've also got Pro Tools LE on the Mini.

Since, on a MacBook you're probably not running a separate drive for
your audio, and even if you are, the processor/ram overload would give
you lots of the spinning fruit gum.

Why would you need to have both running together at the same time?

adam79 wrote:

I have a Macbook Pro that I use w/ Pro Tools LE. I'm thinking of buying
Parallels. To anyone that has the program, does it cause any issues with
Pro Tools?

thanks,
adam

[adam79]

Michael Dines wrote:

Since, on a MacBook you're probably not running a separate drive for
your audio, and even if you are, the processor/ram overload would give
you lots of the spinning fruit gum.

Why would you need to have both running together at the same time?


I wouldn't be running both at the same time. my question is if parallels
leaves anything behind when you end the program that would slow down pro
tools. I do have a 2nd firewire hard drive that i use to record the
audio tracks.

I'v never heard of VM Ware Fusion. Does it run the same way as
parallels? Does it cost more? whisch is the better program, i your opinon?

[Mike Clayton]

adam79 wrote:

I wouldn't be running both at the same time. my question is if parallels
leaves anything behind when you end the program that would slow down pro
tools. I do have a 2nd firewire hard drive that i use to record the
audio tracks.

Adam, In my experience Parallels does not interfere with Pro Tools in
any way at all. I run PTLE and a Digi002, several external drives and a
Metric Halo ULN2-d all on the same firewire bus of a 20" intel duo core
iMac.

I'v never heard of VM Ware Fusion. Does it run the same way as
parallels? Does it cost more? whisch is the better program, i your opinon?

Can't say anything about VM Ware Fusion. Parallels runs happily on my
computer. I have Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux as guest operating systems
running under Parallels.

Mike Clayton

[Michael Dines[_2_]]

adam79 wrote:

Michael Dines wrote:

Since, on a MacBook you're probably not running a separate drive for
your audio, and even if you are, the processor/ram overload would give
you lots of the spinning fruit gum.

Why would you need to have both running together at the same time?


I wouldn't be running both at the same time. my question is if parallels
leaves anything behind when you end the program that would slow down pro
tools. I do have a 2nd firewire hard drive that i use to record the
audio tracks.

I'v never heard of VM Ware Fusion. Does it run the same way as
parallels? Does it cost more? whisch is the better program, i your opinon?

I tend to use VM Ware Fusion the most, but only because I got it first
(Parallels was part of a MacUpdate bundle of software). When I do run
Parallels it seems to start up much faster than Fusion, but that could
be because the Fusion Windows is more full of the bloatware I need it
for.

I've never had any problem running Pro Tools after closing Fusion or
Parallels. From what I can see the two do the same thing, maybe in
slightly different ways. VM Ware are the much larger company, their main
field is virtual machines that run under Windows (you can, illiicitly,
run OSX on a Windows machine with it) and I think Fusion will run more
varieties of OS on a Mac.

So, either is fine for running Windows, neither will interfere with Pro
Tools, so it's probably a matter of which gives the cheapest deal.