What is amount of HD space taken up by WinXP+Office2007 on Mac?

[David J. Braden]

Hi,
I still need VBA, and the fact that functionally, the Win version of
Excel has been functionally ahead of the Mac version since Excel v.5,
leads me to getting ready to install WinXP and as little of Office as I
can to get full Excel 2007 functionality. I will be doing this with
Parallels (thanks to Jim Gordon for the 'heads up'), keeping as sparse
of an XP/Office setup as possible (no games, etc.) for hard-core use on
a Powerbook.

Can someone plz give me a rough idea of how many Gigabytes this will
require?

Many thanks, and greetings to you old-timers - you know who you are <vbg>

Dave Braden

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi David -

I haven't used Parallels, but on my G5 I have 2 VMs in Virtual PC 7, both
running Win XP Pro (one with Office 2003, one with Office 2007). One
occupies ~8 GB the other ~13 GB, plus ~50 MB for the application.

On my Intel MBP I run VMWare Fusion with Vista Ultimate & Office 2007. The
app occupies ~131 MB and the VM ~16 GB.

I would expect similar requirements for Parallels.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[David J. Braden]

Yo Bob,
Many thanks; what you wrote is a big help indeed. Now I'm ready to
plunge in.
Regards,
Dave B
(Excel MVP, 1999-2004)

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

Hi,
I still need VBA, and the fact that functionally, the Win version of
Excel has been functionally ahead of the Mac version since Excel v.5,
leads me to getting ready to install WinXP and as little of Office as I
can to get full Excel 2007 functionality. I will be doing this with
Parallels (thanks to Jim Gordon for the 'heads up'), keeping as sparse
of an XP/Office setup as possible (no games, etc.) for hard-core use on
a Powerbook.

Can someone plz give me a rough idea of how many Gigabytes this will
require?

Many thanks, and greetings to you old-timers - you know who you are <vbg>

Dave Braden

Hi Dave,

Unless you are really tight on disk space, I would avoid making a
"specialized" installation. Sometimes when you do this, the auto-update
process will not be complete and/or will not update your configuration
because some file(s) are missing. That said, using Parallels, my "C:\" drive
is 12 GB. This is a full and current XP Pro, the complete Office 2007, plus
(even though I suggested you not do it), Excel 2003.