Do you run exclusively with Bootcamp, or has anyone tried running Vegas using the parallels.com "Desktop for Mac" software. If it works, it would allow you to run Vegas in a mac window, without booting windows XP (best of both worlds?)

asked that to a mac store rep. it's like getting less than half the performance since, and I quote, "you're running an unstable os on a more powerful one"
hope that helps.

HAH!
So I have implemented and am up and running. THIS is nothing short of amazing.
Vegas, DVD and CD artchitects, Sound Forge all installed, up and running and stable on my MacBookPro 17". Workflow is fast with a couple weird workarounds.

Running bootcamp and XP with 2 gb RAM. PArtitioning and Bootcamp/XP install was taken by TekServe in NYC. I have done all the rest.

Simply amazing.

Oh also sync my Treo 700P over BlueTooth and can use the Treo as a high speed mobile modem. This system is getting to be pretty damn hip!

Thanks to all of you that contributed very valuable comments. You are the ones that gave me the confidence to see what happens on this project. IT ROCKS!

I recently read a review in a computer magazine (I think it was MaximumPC, but the article is not online) where they took some common apps that are run on both Windows and Macintosh (like PhotoShop, for example). They then took a new apple machine with two different configurations: XP and the latest Mac OS and did benchmark tests using these apps.

Funny thing is, they found that every app they tested on the Mac got higher benchmarks (ran faster) in the XP environment. I don't have the article with me now, otherwise I could provide more details.

Now if MacBook Pros would only come down in prices life would be grand.

common apps that are run on both Windows and Macintosh (like PhotoShop, for example)... Funny thing is, they found that every app they tested on the Mac got higher benchmarks (ran faster) in the XP environment.

Not surprising, considering that Photoshop and other Adobe apps currently run only in Rosetta emulation, i.e. the CPU isn't running Photoshop directly, but running a "virtual PowerPC 5 processor" that runs Photoshop.

What is absolutely amazing is that you can run a Mac version of Photoshop and it's very nearly a fast as a G5 on typical tasks.

Bob said:

"Given that with Macdrive one can mount a HFS+ volume on any PC and with appropriate tools transfer FCP projects into Vegas."

Bob, I just posted a a new topic asking about doing this. I need to port a FCP project into Vegas. Any hints on what the 'appropriate tools' are?

Dan

Not sure I understand your response (I don't know anything about the Rosetta emulation)... I'll have to take a look at the article again, but I'm pretty sure they were running the native Mac version of the various apps they tested on the non-XP configured machine.

Just picked up my MacBook Pro. Finally, what's the consensus re formatting the Windows side, presuming I will NOT be editing media on the internal drive (using an external for media): NTFS or FAT32? Also, what are others using as their partion size for the Windows side?

Reid C

Not sure I understand your response (I don't know anything about the Rosetta emulation)... I'll have to take a look at the article again, but I'm pretty sure they were running the native Mac version of the various apps they tested on the non-XP configured machine.

Adobe hasn't updated their apps for Intel Macs. They have been saying since one year ago that they will keep the current versions as they are, and make the CS3 apps in 2007 Intel native.

This means that Adobe's current apps are compiled for PowerPC processors. When you start one of these apps on an Intel Mac, the OS automatically feeds the code not to the Intel CPU (which won't understand it), but to a program (called Rosetta) that reads the PowerPC code and translates it on the fly to Intel code.

Amazingly, this works well enough that even Photoshop users are not suffering for normal tasks.

NTFS is more robust than FAT32. Partition size is whatever you need on each side. The standard harddisk isn't that big, so it makes sense to minimize the Win XP disk space to just a few gigabytes, especially if you have all your data on an external disk anyway.