Boot Camp or parallel

Rooky007

Rooky007

Rooky007

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Hi

As you all know I got myself a MBP.

I now feel i need to get Windows on it for a few apps of mine so i can get rid of my windows rig.

Which is best Boot Camp Or Parallel

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I have tried Boot Camp, Parallels, CrossOver and VM Fusion. The best for speed and compatibility by far is Boot Camp. The only inconvenience is the reboot - 30 seconds out of your life and if you set it up right OS X can read your Windows partitin so that you can get the files created in Windows. It depends what you want to do, but so far Boot Camp is the best, IMHO.
 
AJUK said:
I have tried Boot Camp, Parallels, CrossOver and VM Fusion. The best for speed and compatibility by far is Boot Camp. The only inconvenience is the reboot - 30 seconds out of your life and if you set it up right OS X can read your Windows partitin so that you can get the files created in Windows. It depends what you want to do, but so far Boot Camp is the best, IMHO.
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How easy is boot camp really is to do? Dont want to mess the MBP up.
 
It depends how you will use it. Bootcamp isn't an option for me because I need to use both OS X and Windows constantly throughout the day. I've currently switched to Fusion because I found the latest Parallels to be a bit sluggish at times.
 
Rookies said:
Going to do it later just a question do I still need to have AV installed for the Windows bit????
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Yes, running Windows on a Mac is exactly the same as if you were running it on generic PC hardware.
 
I've found Bootcamp so much faster and smoother than parallels, but i miss using OSx at the same time so i may try other options.
 
I have been running Parallels (purchased) and VM Fusion for a few weeks on my MacBook. Both like as much RAM as possible (I have 2Gb).

Not tried Bootcamp yet, as I was down to the last 5Gb on my hard drive. :(

Bought a 160Gb drive as a replacement a few days ago so might give Bootcamp a try.
 
I used Parallels for a good while before changing to Boot Camp. Parallels is integrated far to much into OS X these days for my liking.
 
it depends, boot camp is fine but with parallels the software is being virtualised instead of being emulated, therefore because there is no hardware being emulated it will be faster, its more convinent than bootcamp because it saves you the rebooting, personally i would go for virtualisation although the actual software costs around $50.
 
I run both boot camp and parallels, I rarely boot in to bootcamp as its just the odd windows programs I need to use ad-hoc. Like everyone else is saying bootcamp should give you the speed of running windows on a pc of the same spec of your apple, while parallels is slow.

I not put vista on the system yet (need a bigger hdd) but a few lads here has it and it runs great on both macbook and macbook pro.
 
I'd have to suggest Bootcamp too.

Although Parallels looks impressive I think you'd be better off with the 3D acceleration and the added support from Apple (seeing as Bootcamp is coming to Leopard soon).
 
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