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With a single all three monitors instantly switch from Mac to PC or visa versa. I'm running 3 monitors: the laptop 2560x1600, 1 external monitors at 2560x1600 via Thunderbolt and another 1920x1080 via HDMI. I'm happy with my performance (though I do notice better Mac performance when Parallels isn't running, and better windows performance if I boot directly into Windows).īut since parallels requires you to partition your memory, a 4Gig Airbook would leave you with only 2G for mac and 2G for Win, which is really a bare minimum these days.ītw, I was not a fan of parallels in the early days, and abandoned it completely.
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On windows I'm running Office, Sound Forge, Photoshop, iTunes and on the Mac I'm running mainly XCode (I develop iOS games) and Digital Performer. I bought a MacBook Pro 13" Retina display a few months ago (8G, i7-3520 CPU), 512G SSD and am running Parallels 8 running Windows 7 Ultimate. I'm running almost exactly your same situation.ĤGig of RAM will be too little for what you want to do I think, so I'd go with the MacBook Pro. Does anyone have any experience using Windows with JAWS and other programs on a MacBook Air/pro? If so, how did it run? So, I am looking for recommendations, please. I am just concerned about that slower processor in the MacBook Air. I currently have a Toshiba Portege R835 (2011) with an Intel Sandy Bridge i5 processor, and it runs JAWS fine. I also use Microsoft Office (mostly Outlook), Sound Forge, iTunes, and a few other miscellaneous programs. I have JAWS 14, which in my experience is rather memory-intensive.
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I am considering getting either the 2013 13" MacBook Air with the 1.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB ram, and 256 or 512GB SSD.or the 13" MacBook Pro with the 2.9GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 processor, 8GB ram, and 750GB hard drive. I have a large audio recording and music database, some of which can be transferred onto external storage if necessary. I have JAWS 14, Microsoft Office, Sound Forge, and a few other programs here and there that I want to run. I am wanting to use it mainly to run Windows 7 Home Premium in Boot Camp, so I can go back and forth and eventually get to using OS X more. I am in the market for a new laptop-a MacBook in particular.
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