anat0l
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One week with my shiny new MacBook Air 11.6. Worth every cent. I am using it solely for travel, it replaces my 13" 1st Generation MacBook Air which has now become my lounging about machine at home.
Work is all Windoze so I run Parallels 6 with Windows 7 Professional. I upgraded the ram to 4GB and went for the 1.6 gig processor.
It is a stunning piece of kit. Beautifully designed.
....and yes I also have an IPad!!!
How did you install Windows on it? Do you have an external optical drive, or can Parallels install OSes using ISO files?
Having had no experience with Parallels, is it a boot manager / OS manager or a virtual machine manager? If it is the latter, wouldn't you have a severe performance hit in using Windows?
In any case, even if it were just a boot manager (i.e. can only run one OS at a time, just like Boot Camp), I'd be interested to hear how performance of Windows is on the system when running under more stressed conditions. For example, I'd be wanting to run Firefox (and for a smaller system I'd still like to have about 10 tabs open at a time) and Tweetdeck at the same time as a minimum; add to that Microsoft Word et al. and - God help us - Adobe Acrobat (either browser plug-in or app).