Hello Jamie,
I am running NVivo on my MacPro. I installed VMware Fusion as the
virtual machine and Windows XP as the windows operating system. In
the beginning I was really frustrated about the speed but after
upgrading my RAM to 4GB it's okay. Speed problems now only if I have
too many other applications running at the same time.
Cheers,
Ulrike
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>Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:42:21 +0100
>From: Jamie Furniss <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Using NVIVO on Mac computers?
>
>Hello list,
>
>I'm curious if anyone has experience using NVIVO on a mac?
>
>The two options, since there is no native mac version of the software,
>seem to be Boot Camp or a virtual environment. Boot Camp doesn't seem
>like a very good option to me, since it makes flipping back and forth
>between NVIVO and my word or other docs I'm working on difficult. As
>for the virtualPC-type options ("parallels," etc), some people at my
>department warned me that NVIVO might be too resource intensive to run
>in this way...
>
>I've actually been thinking of getting a cheap, small PC such as a
>Dell on which I could run only NVIVO. Then as I'd work on my mac I'd
>have NVIVO running beside me on another computer...seems cumbersome
>though.
>
>Cheers,
>Jamie Furniss
>Department of International Development, University of Oxford
>
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Ulrike Kachel
PhD Candidate
Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management
Griffith Business School
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