So with a 2013 Macbook Air that supports USB 3.0 speeds in the SD slot, this would be more than suitable to run parallels + windows 7 virtual machine?
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That was the root cause of my bought of this product. I have tested and it rocks...
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I don't have experience with the 2013 hardware - my Air is mid-2011. My firm view is that it is best to leave VMs on the internal SSD as this would still be faster than the USB3 SD slot. However, as they say, your mileage may vary. Good luck!
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It should be fine with Transcend quoting "up to 95MB/s and write speeds of up to 60MB/s". It will be much more usable than my 2012 MBA on USB 2 SD slot speeds.
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Hi Richard! You can install programs (like parallels) in this laptop to have virtual machines where you can install any OS you want (like windows). But in fact you CANT move windows programs directly (without the apps I mentioned before) into this Apple laptop. Mac OS and Windows are two completly different operation systems that works in entirely different ways. If you are mainly going to use those windows programs in daly basis I do not recommend you to buy this laptop, get another (not apple) one.
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According to this: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5219#1 I believe you should be fine. Read it to be sure, but I believe the Haswell based Airs run video through thunderbolt just fine.
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I have one of these set up with standard drives and am able to run two VMs at the same time easily. I assume that SSDs would make it a bit faster though.
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You can actually run Windows (any flavor) on the mac using VirtualBox. Once you have that in place you can run any Windows application in your mac
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Yes. It is versatile with Windows OS, but will not work without using Parallels or some other compiler with Apple.
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According to this: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5219#1I believe you should be fine. Read it to be sure, but I believe the Haswell based Airs run video through thunderbolt just fine.
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Works well with El Capitan, Parallels Windows 10 VM, and Boot camp with Windows 10 - no issues.
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It really shouldn't matter, regardless of your virtual machine, whether it's Bootcamp, Parallels, VMWare Fusion or some other. For me, I use VMWare Fusion and had zero "setup" to perform. I simply plugged in the dongle and the ethernet cable, and I was connected to the network immediately. Your performance may vary, if you have to setup your other USB connections - flash drive, power cable for your iPod/iPad/iPhone, etc. - in order to use them in your vm.
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Yes it does. I have it connected to my Mac Min with Mountain Lioni with Parallels 8 to run Windows XP and it it supported by both.
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I don't think so because if you use thunderbolt on Mac; the drive get very hot and automatically reject itself. But USB 3.0 will be fine and the drive is speed nearly the same for both USB 3.0 and thunderbolt.
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You should have no problem. My mac has USB 2.0 and this drive supports USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 natively. The only difference you will see is the data transfer speed, and honestly, even with USB 2.0 interface, the data transfer is pretty fast.
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Ten years ago Macs and the Mac OS were pretty bad compared to Windows and Intel machines. But Mac OS X now that it's settled down is really nice. Disks are so big now, maybe you can afford a corner for a Mac OS playground. :-)Check this 3/29/2007 article on BootCamp 1.2's support for Vista including Aero Glass, and Parallels and VMWare's software for running MacOS and Windows at the same time (VMWare with DirectX with XP):http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/011018.html
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Absolutely, I have been using it for 2 years with no problems. Windows 7 64bit. Of course to get the best speed you will need usb 3.0 ports. Luckily, my laptop has 3!Enjoy, Arlie
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I have a MAC but there are certain programs that seem to run better on PC, (Audible.com, Stamps.com) and i did not want to use Parallels program on the Mac.The Acer works great for me, no problems at all. I am satisfied with the Acer, especially for the price.. I hope this is helpful for you...Chuck
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i Bought OWC 240GB Aura Pro Solid State Drive & Envoy Storage Solution for MacBook Air 2012 and its working really good. You should go to http://www.macsales.com/ and they have support Bye
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Absolutely. I have a MBP and bought 3 of these drives, although one was a gift to my brother-in-law who has a macbook air. I have one formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for my own use, and one MS DOS for sharing files with none mac users. It's the best USB flash drive I've ever used.