Re: [Fed-Talk] Space taken up by Boot Disk on an Intel Macbook Pro
Re: [Fed-Talk] Space taken up by Boot Disk on an Intel Macbook Pro
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Space taken up by Boot Disk on an Intel Macbook Pro
- From: Dave Schroeder <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:54:52 -0600
When you create a Boot Camp partition, it remains the size you specify
the day you create it. Nothing from the Windows partition touches the
Mac side. But, if you allocate, say, 20GB to Boot Camp, that will take
that 20GB away from the Mac side, even if it's not all being used.
...but, have you considered a virtualization product like VMWare
Fusion or Parallels Desktop? It's a great way to run Windows for
nearly all apps, at essentially the full speed of the computer,
without having to reboot just to use Windows and without having to
partition your disk.
As to your second issue, you don't need to do anything special to
Office documents on the Mac to make them open in Windows. The file
format for Office 97-2003 is (basically) the same on Windows, and that
is also the same as what Office 2004 uses on the Mac. The big change
comes with Office 2007 on Windows, which saves files by default in a
new format called Office Open XML, with an "x" added the familiar
office extensions like .doc (.docx). Office 2008 for Mac, due in
January, will also support Office Open XML, and you'll then have to be
conscious about specifically saving in the "older" Office format to
work in versions of Office before 2007/2008.
- Dave
On Dec 11, 2007, at 7:39 AM, Villano, Paul Ch CIV USA TRADOC wrote:
Shawn's comment about space management and allocation made me
wonder about Boot Camp. I have a new Macbook Pro and am toying with
the idea of running the Boot Camp provided. However I am still a
recovering Windows user. :) So I wake up in cold sweats imagining
myself clicking on the icon and this tiny application suddenly
bloating itself like a huge sponge and sucking up all of that nice,
clean free space on my hard drive. Are my fears founded in any
reality or does Boot Camp work as is without expanding (unpacking
like unwelcome house guests and taking over)?
Thanks.
Paul
PS Just to show how much of a newbie I am, as if you couldn't
guess, I used the demo version of PowerPoint for Mac and couldn't
figure out how to save it for use in Windows or older versions
(backward compatible). But when I loaded it on my Windows machine
it...ummm..."just worked." I still can't figure out how that
happened or if it was supposed to! :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn A. Geddis" <email@hidden>
Date: Monday, December 10, 2007 22:19
Subject: [Fed-Talk] Re: Performance hit with Parallels inside of
FileVault
To: Fed Talk <email@hidden>
There is of course a rub between the different OS environments and
how
space is allocated and managed.
- Shawn
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Shawn Geddis Security Consulting Engineer Apple
Enterprise
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