Using a MAC - via Parallels ?

seki wrote:Does anyone have any experience using the Nokia Suite on a MAC .. with the Parallels - win xp loaded ?

A friend with a Mac is looking at buying an N95 .. this is a potential drawback.

Hi,
I use an N95 with a Mac & to be honest you don't need the Nokia Suite. Nokia have an iSync plugin that works fine. Once installed you can use Apples Address book to manage all your contacts & send SMS messages & iCal to manage all your appointments & caleandar related events.
The only drawback to using the N95 with a Mac is that the phone itself doesn't show as an external storage HD (like most other phones do), only the N95s memory card is directly accessible.

The only reason you might need to use Windows for your N95 is for updating the firmware or debranding it. In this case I'd recommend installing Apple Boot Camp software & creating a bootable XP partition on your HD. Parallels is great but on rare occassions can unexpectidly quit - this could be disasterous if you were flashing your phone & render it unusable. For this reason I'd recommend booting into XP on your Mac for the very rare occassions you need to use it for anything important or demanding (like gaming or running 3d apps).

If you install Parallels Desktop (which is excellent by the way), you can use the same XP partition that you created in Boot Camp. This means you dont have XP installed twice on your Mac & that you don't have to leave the Mac OS to boot into XP for other things (like running Microsoft access or Office 2007 for example) for which Parallels works great.

However I wouldn't recommend Parallels for such critical tasks as flashing your firmware, for this I would always recommend booting into XP directly. For everything else Parallels is fine.

Hope this helps😎

JazzyGB1 wrote:Hi,
I use an N95 with a Mac & to be honest you don't need the Nokia Suite. Nokia have an iSync plugin that works fine. Once installed you can use Apples Address book to manage all your contacts & send SMS messages & iCal to manage all your appointments & caleandar related events.
The only drawback to using the N95 with a Mac is that the phone itself doesn't show as an external storage HD (like most other phones do), only the N95s memory card is directly accessible.

The only reason you might need to use Windows for your N95 is for updating the firmware or debranding it. In this case I'd recommend installing Apple Boot Camp software & creating a bootable XP partition on your HD. Parallels is great but on rare occassions can unexpectidly quit - this could be disasterous if you were flashing your phone & render it unusable. For this reason I'd recommend booting into XP on your Mac for the very rare occassions you need to use it for anything important or demanding (like gaming or running 3d apps).

If you install Parallels Desktop (which is excellent by the way), you can use the same XP partition that you created in Boot Camp. This means you dont have XP installed twice on your Mac & that you don't have to leave the Mac OS to boot into XP for other things (like running Microsoft access or Office 2007 for example) for which Parallels works great.

However I wouldn't recommend Parallels for such critical tasks as flashing your firmware, for this I would always recommend booting into XP directly. For everything else Parallels is fine.

Hope this helps😎

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