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Charles Jones 
Spain
Local time: 07:33
Spanish to English
TOPIC STARTER | Windows on an MBA | Dec 4, 2011 |
David Jessop wrote: Charles Jones wrote:
I am thinking of getting myself a macbook air as my 2nd. computer. I have a normal PC for office work, but need a small laptop for travel. I would need to use Parallels to run it, bu am wondering if it would all work fine. What does anyone think? Is there a better option than the mac? Hi Charles, I do just that (Macbook Air late 2011, 13" 4 GB RAM) and I happen to use VMWare instead of Parallels but imagine you would have the same results. The only challenge is that some of the Trados keyboard shortcuts don´t work given the differences in keyboard. This can be solved by purchasing a USB external PC keyboard. Good luck, I love my MBA!
Okay, so I have it - my wife is still not talking to me yet, but I have it. A lovely MBA 13". Unfortunately, it seems very difficult to install windows, unless you have a external optical drive, which I haven´t. How did you do it, David? In Apple they mentioned from a USB, but were´t all that convincing. I really don´t want to buy a superdrive because I´ll never use it.
Any help would be much appreciated - this is my marriage on the line here!
Cheers,
Charles
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LEXpert
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| Installing without an optical drive | Dec 4, 2011 |
Charles Jones wrote:
Okay, so I have it - my wife is still not talking to me yet, but I have it. A lovely MBA 13". Unfortunately, it seems very difficult to install windows, unless you have a external optical drive, which I haven´t. How did you do it, David? In Apple they mentioned from a USB, but were´t all that convincing. I really don´t want to buy a superdrive because I´ll never use it.
Any help would be much appreciated - this is my marriage on the line here!
Cheers,
Charles
Install from an ISO image you've saved on a USB stick after making it from the Windows DVD on another computer (which will indeed have to have an optical drive):
http://insidethebrackets.blogspot.com/2009/04/install-windows-on-macbook-air-with-no.html
I'd reconsider not getting the external optical drive though. It doesn't have to be a Superdrive - most any all-purpose drive will work with a Mac. They're really cheap nowadays (over here, starting at about $45 for a basic USB-powered portable) that it may be easier just to get one (and have it to use later, of course) than jump through hoops to avoid it for a single installation.
HTH. I'm into this myself now, as I'm about to dive into installing Windows on the brand new Macbook Pro 13 I bought (ahem!) "for my wife". Of course, she'll get it back eventually, after I check out the installation thoroughly...  )
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Charles Jones wrote: David Jessop wrote: Charles Jones wrote:
I am thinking of getting myself a macbook air as my 2nd. computer. I have a normal PC for office work, but need a small laptop for travel. I would need to use Parallels to run it, bu am wondering if it would all work fine. What does anyone think? Is there a better option than the mac? Hi Charles, I do just that (Macbook Air late 2011, 13" 4 GB RAM) and I happen to use VMWare instead of Parallels but imagine you would have the same results. The only challenge is that some of the Trados keyboard shortcuts don´t work given the differences in keyboard. This can be solved by purchasing a USB external PC keyboard. Good luck, I love my MBA! Okay, so I have it - my wife is still not talking to me yet, but I have it. A lovely MBA 13". Unfortunately, it seems very difficult to install windows, unless you have a external optical drive, which I haven´t. How did you do it, David? In Apple they mentioned from a USB, but were´t all that convincing. I really don´t want to buy a superdrive because I´ll never use it. Any help would be much appreciated - this is my marriage on the line here! Cheers, Charles
Hi Charles,
Yes, I did it with a (16 GB) USB stick, absolutely no problems whatsoever. There are lots of resources you can Google to help you but it was quite seamless.
It's up to you but I would recommend partitioning around 40 GB space for Windows; then you can share document folders from the Mac partition with that 40 GB mainly being for programs. That's what I did, have installed loads of programs, and still have around 10 GB remaining.
Good luck, send me a PM if I can help with anything.
David
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Charles Jones
Spain
Local time: 07:33
Spanish to English
TOPIC STARTER | All done and dusted! | Dec 10, 2011 |
In the end, I bought myself a superdrive as a kind of early Christmas present. I chickened out, I suppose! I have now installed everything perfectly, and will get down to doing some work to justify (and pay for) all this kit!
We should set up some kind of mac community/lobby within proz to help each other out!
That´s it - you have all been a great help - my thanks to everyone.
All the best, Charles
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| Mac community to help each other | Dec 11, 2011 |
Charles Jones wrote:
In the end, I bought myself a superdrive as a kind of early Christmas present. I chickened out, I suppose! I have now installed everything perfectly, and will get down to doing some work to justify (and pay for) all this kit!
We should set up some kind of mac community/lobby within proz to help each other out!
That´s it - you have all been a great help - my thanks to everyone.
All the best, Charles
Totally agree to mac lobby idea the discussion is very helpful - I've encountered the same problem here, looking for a Translation CAT tool that would work with my MacBook. Thanks for help!
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Michael Beijer
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