Macbook Pro / VMware Fusion / Quickbooks / Actinic / XP

[uh_vm]

Does anyone actually have real experience on VMware Fusion?

Particularly setting up the Macbook with XP (perhaps Vista!), and simuntanlisly running Quickbooks / Actinic on the Windows side.

I saw some review reported the accounting software are fully working. But knowing how "fragile" "delicate" "sensitive" of Actinic - I wanted to make sure before spending some money for the Macbook.

In theory it should work - how about the performance?

Any comments welcome.

[NicolaUK]

I'm using Actinic with Parallels (XP Pro) - have been for about 16 months, works perfectly well but do get the odd printing problem. There's at least one other member doing the same but I can't remember his username.

A MacBook screen would be pretty small IMO.

[uh_vm]

which actinic are you using? v8 or v9?

[Cheapprices4u]

up till last night i was running vmware fusion
on a partition on the imac

worked fine

[NicolaUK]

Have been using 8 up till yesterday, slowly switching over to 9 now

[NicolaUK]

Some info on the latest printing issue I've had

http://community.actinic.com/showthr...692#post238692

[Tickle]

In May I made the switch from running Actinic in Vista ( Actinic V9 in Vista was was terribly buggy at the time) to running Actinic V9 in Windows XP on VMware Fusion on my Macbook. I've never looked back!

I tried it in parallels as well but VMware feels so much easier to use. Checkout this thread for a conversation on the subject: http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=37370

I can't comment on Quickbooks but I'll bet it works fine as well.