Is It Possible To Run Windows Vista On My Macbook?
By sumimasen
@sumimasen (644)
United States
4 responses
@coachflaps (683)
• United States
9 Apr 07
To run anything other then Vista Home Basic you will need to upgrade the ram to at least 1GB. Download the newest version of bootcamp www.apple.com/bootcamp set up your partitions and install vista.
@noneed4ink (106)
• Philippines
23 May 07
512MB RAM is the "minimum" requirement for running Vista. If you want performance, you should upgrade to atleast 1GB of RAM. :)
Oh yeah, they also say you should not select the Vista Basic Version. Try getting another version other than the Basic. ;)
@sumimasen (644)
• United States
2 Jun 07
Well, I chickened out once I started reading all the problems that Vista has right now. I think I'll wait until it get a bit smoother. I really don't want a crappy Vista problem on my lovely lovely mac.
@Xenosian (11)
• Malaysia
15 Apr 07
Running Vista under Parallels (www.ParallelsOnline.com/Mac) or Virtual Machine (www.vmware.com) will definitely require 2GB of RAM or more. But if you intend to use Vista under BootCamp, then 1GB should be the bare minimum of RAM that your system should go with. More RAM is always better, especially if you want to run Aero effects.
Aero effects will not work in Vista running within Parallels or Virtual Machine because all the hardware is being emulated and there is no way to emulate a 3D graphics card within an emulation layer. But you will still need more than 1GB of RAM in your system to take full advantage of Vista, regardless of whether you use BootCamp or emulation software.
So, to answer your question: YES, you need more RAM. Vista will automatically use up all available RAM in the system to speed up performance because access from the RAM is always faster than access from the harddisk. Even if you have 16GB of RAM, Vista will use all of it to load critical system files that are accessed frequently so that response time in Vista will be faster.