Ill beg forgiveness in advance because I know some of this has probably been discussed repeatedly, but I am a little confused.
I just bought a brand new Imac, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X 10.5.2. I work for the Federal Government, an unfortunately we are still using Corel Word Perfect. So, I've done some research and decided to go the virtualization route. What I'm confused about is:
Can I buy an external hard drive, hook it up to my Imac via Firewire, and install anything related to or having to do with Windows on the external hard drive? I esentially want to have the Mac drive and the Windows drive completely and physically separated. Some of the reading I've done indicates that Windows will not run well from an external drive, and some very complicated partitioning is needed....The threads I read were somewhat older though....
I'm open to either Fusion or Parallels...I have no real preference, I just would really like to keep everything MS related on the external drive....
Thanks in advance for your patience, and please feel free to respond to me as if I am a kindergardener........Bryant in Chicago
I just bought a brand new Imac, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OS X 10.5.2. I work for the Federal Government, an unfortunately we are still using Corel Word Perfect. So, I've done some research and decided to go the virtualization route. What I'm confused about is:
Can I buy an external hard drive, hook it up to my Imac via Firewire, and install anything related to or having to do with Windows on the external hard drive? I esentially want to have the Mac drive and the Windows drive completely and physically separated. Some of the reading I've done indicates that Windows will not run well from an external drive, and some very complicated partitioning is needed....The threads I read were somewhat older though....
I'm open to either Fusion or Parallels...I have no real preference, I just would really like to keep everything MS related on the external drive....
Thanks in advance for your patience, and please feel free to respond to me as if I am a kindergardener........Bryant in Chicago