Hi everyone and thanks for reading.

I have just migrated to a 2.8 Mac Pro 8 core with 6 gigs of ram...I installed Windows XP pro SP2 on a 32 Gb Fat partition on my primary drive using bootcamp. I had difficulty installing Windows when trying to format the partition with a NFTS. It would not read my windows install disk if using NFTS. (weird)

I have XP up and running now but it only sees 2 gigs of ram....I understand that a limitation of XP is that it can only read 3 gigs but where is this other gig.

I am currently using Sony Vegas 8 and the extra gig would probably not make a huge difference, but every little bit helps.

I migrated away from core2 quad Pc with 3 gigs of ram to the Mac and I was rendering a small project in Vegas for a client last night and the Mac seems to render significantly faster than my PC did, even without the ram not being recognized....The power of the processors seems obvious.

Its not a huge deal, just wondering if anyone has seen this.

Is anyone using Sony Vegas with something like Parallels, Fusion.

Thanks
Lou

Hi everyone and thanks for reading.

I have just migrated to a 2.8 Mac Pro 8 core with 6 gigs of ram...I installed Windows XP pro SP2 on a 32 Gb Fat partition on my primary drive using bootcamp. I had difficulty installing Windows when trying to format the partition with a NFTS. It would not read my windows install disk if using NFTS. (weird)

I have XP up and running now but it only sees 2 gigs of ram....I understand that a limitation of XP is that it can only read 3 gigs but where is this other gig.

I am currently using Sony Vegas 8 and the extra gig would probably not make a huge difference, but every little bit helps.

I migrated away from core2 quad Pc with 3 gigs of ram to the Mac and I was rendering a small project in Vegas for a client last night and the Mac seems to render significantly faster than my PC did, even without the ram not being recognized....The power of the processors seems obvious.

Its not a huge deal, just wondering if anyone has seen this.

Is anyone using Sony Vegas with something like Parallels, Fusion.

Thanks
Lou

Actually the limitation is in fact 2 gigs. You can use the /3gb switch in the boot config but system resources will take most of that extra gig anyway, and when I used the switch it caused a host of stability problems in my system.

You can google "3gb switch" and read about it, as it's often misunderstood as to exactly what it does.

You can google "3gb switch" and read about it, as it's often misunderstood as to exactly what it does.

Thanks a bunch, makes sense. Does switching to Vista offer any advantages?

Lou

Thanks a bunch, makes sense. Does switching to Vista offer any advantages?

Lou

NO with a capital N and O! Vista is more buggy than XP, I've found, and the general consensus is that it's a disaster in it's current state and should be avoided until the kinks are worked out. Surely with all this consumer-friendly bloatware and hyper-sensitive security stuff installed it's a bugger to edit on. My recommendation is XP64. I've been pleasantly surprised by it; it uses all my 4 GBs, Premiere Pro runs very smoothly and I've had the least amount of crashes while using it (2 to 3 versus 10-20 easily using regular XP home/professional).

Thanks for the insight Ben,

are you working primarily on a Mac or a PC?

Lou

For some reason, Bootcamp limits Windows to seeing only 2gb. Windows is able to see up to 4 gigs, depending on the hardware setup. (My Dell system sees 3 gigs of RAM)

Hi everyone and thanks for reading.



Is anyone using Sony Vegas with something like Parallels, Fusion.

Thanks
Lou

I have used Vegas via Parallels. Worked reasonably well, I just go tired of keeping parallels and bootcamp in sync. Decided it was easier to just reboot, and use macdrive to move files back and forth as needed