Boot Camp & Windows

Kagemusha

Kagemusha

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Just ordered the g/f a 27" Imac, i7, 680MX

What is the general consensus with windows and Boot Camp? Are the drivers for Win8 okay now or are most people still using Win7?

Are people even using Boot Camp, is parallels the way to go?

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Depends what you want to use windows for really?

I use w7 for a bit of gaming through bootcamp onto a second hard drive (though had to get a cheap mouse as bluetooth on my mac mini had some windows problems I haven't been bothered to work out).

Parallels is an added cost to not reboot, have to pay for windows and parallels. It is good for non gaming stuff though.

Still under the impression most things have a decent mac alternative now though :)
 
The reason she is looking at Windows is to run AutoCAD and [supposedly] secondary, some non-Mac gaming.

AutoCAD is available on Mac but has been built from the ground up rather than ported, so the interface is considerably different to what she is used to and what she would be working on in an office environment - very few design houses use Mac OS as the platform for AutoCAD.

We had a kid last year so she is hoping to pull in some freelance work from home and doesn't want to lose touch with the Windows environment getting used to and working solely in a Mac OS.
 
Ah AutoCAD isn't think I have had any experience with recently, back at uni I helped show a mate how to run it through virtual box on Tiger (it was quite a while ago now) and that wasn't great (though it was a 2007 mbp and hardware as well as the OS have come on leaps and bounds since then).

I believe you can combine bootcamp and parallels to make a partition that is both bootable via bootcamp and then useable through parallels as some non-mac gaming would really favour the bootcamp method when a bit of windows interface autocad is something that should be doable through a vm.

I would have a look at how different the mac and non-mac autoCAD are too as it could be similar to my experience between office versions which really just had the menus in different places for different things.
 
I run bootcamp on my mac and parallels too. I normally use bootcamp if I will be doing something more demanding and parallels just for doing lighter stuff.
 
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