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To: Paul Chiu who wrote (67449)	8/23/2007 1:43:48 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 213185

does a new Macbook pro or imac comes with parallels or fusion? Neither. But they are fairly inexpensive (less than $100). I saw a copy of Parallels on sale at the Apple Store yesterday. Perhaps Fusion was there as well. Just didn't look. The big issues with Parallels are that you need maximum ram; a licensed copy of XP, preferably the most recent version of it, or you will spend a rather large amount of time downloading upgrades; and time to experiment (the manual was not terribly helpful nor was support--Michal Daniels held my hand through the process but he's no longer on SI). Oh, yes, it doesn't hurt to have lots of hard disk space. You can create a copy of the Parallels file to use when the original gets corrupted, which doubles the space requirements but is a handy safety factor since reinstalling will easily wipe out a long afternoon.