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Sweet. MBP. 8GB RAM.

Recently decided to purchase some RAM upgrades for my laptop. It’s not that it wasn’t that fast with 4GB, but when using a 2GB RAM windows 7 VM (VMware Fusion), things started to slow down. I still need to use windows in a VM for software applications like QuickBooks, and to access the KVM switch […]

Just finished my HOWTO on Windows 7

Check out the article I just finished… It’s a HOWTO on installing and configuring Windows 7 x64 in VMWare Fusion, which is VMWare’s workstation product for Mac OS X. http://mikecentola.com/articles/howto-install-windows-7-x64-beta-in-vmware-fusion/ I’ve had it running on my 8-Core Mac Pro for a little while now 🙂

Update to the Mac

It’s been a while since my last blog about the Mac, and everything has been going great! I decided to take advantage of the falling prices of RAM, and upgraded to 16GB, which is the max that this Mac can take. I don’t think I should have any issues now! The WinTec ram was no […]

WinTec RAM

Just wanted to give props to WinTec for taking care of my RAM issue. A while back I ordered RAM from newegg for my Mac Pro, and it sat around until I finally got moved into the building. When I put the RAM in the machine, 2 of the sticks were DoA, and the newegg […]