I just got my Macbook Pro back in late April and I could not be happier with it I have not had one single issue with it. The only problem I am having is that I like to game a wee bit an as we know not a lot of developers release games for Windows an Mac. So over the course of the week I have been trying to come up with ways to get Windows games to run on my Mac!
I first started off with Crossover games an that just turned out to be a bigger headache than I care to explain. In short I downloaded about 5 different Windows exclusive games an were supposedly supported by Crossover games an not one of them worked!
The next suggestion someone had for me was to use Parallels I got it an Windows 7 Ultimate a couple of days ago an was able to successfully download an install a game with these basic minimum requirements...
OS Windows XP SP2 or above
CPU CPU Pentium3-800MHz or above
GRAPHIC DirectX 9.0c or above (VRAM : 32MB or above)
RAM 256MB or above
HDD More than 8.7GB disk space
SOUND 16 bit stereo 44KHz WAVE compatible sound card
DISPLAY 800x600 or above, High Color display
NETWORK 1M bps or above
Now here are the stats of my Macbook Pro
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro6,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
When I started the game on Parallels I was mortified about how slow the program was running. I figured with a system like mine it would be able to run quite decently. So basically my question is would I benefit any by upgrading my RAM I was gonna get a 4gb stick an replace the 2 so I will have 6gb an give a lot more RAM to the Parallels instead of the 1GB it gets now? Also would it make any difference if I just went up to 8GB of ram an gave more RAM to the Parallel? I do not need to play games in ultra high settings but just to play them with little to minimum hiccups would be nice?!?! I would appreciate any an all suggestions, Thanks a lot!