Running Windows on rMBP

[oli356]

Hi all,

I've had my 13" rMBP for about a month now. I like certain aspects of OSX, the terminal is great - I work in networking so just being able to telnet into something instead of using SecureCRT is handy, as well as the tabs so I can ping multiple things in one window.

I like the installing of applications, how quick and easy it is.. I don't like how some applications don't run on OSX and I need to go to my VM.

I love Windows 7, I prefer it overall... the snipping tool is great (I've found a few similar things in Mac.. but when copying an image to Outlook email it doesn't seem like I can resize it).. There's multiple reasons I'd rather just run Windows not in a VM.
I need to remote desktop into servers a lot, the Mac RDP app isn't great - I use another one a lot of the time (can't think of the name) - but it doesn't compare to Windows Remote Desktop app.


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So, I want to go full Windows. I'm not sure if it's possible to just run Windows natively without Mac OS X taking space on the hard drive? So bootcamp would be the best choice.
Is there a way to use my W7 VM in VMWare Fusion as the OS for the bootcamp partition? If so this would save a lot of time.

thanks!

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Why not run a virtual machine or just use bootcamp?

 

[oli356]

Why not run a virtual machine or just use bootcamp?

Use the VM currently, but if I come to use it so often then I rather just use it all the time. Windows is a great OS so why not.

Looking at bootcamp this evening, think it will be best to just reformat and re-install Mac OS X so I have as much storage as I can for the Windows partition.

 

[oli356]

Just got bootcamp setup, the Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter not being hot swappable is stupid...hopefully it stays recognised if I put the machine to sleep...

Hopefully there are no surprises with the VGA or DVI adapter.

Mind you even if I turn it on with the adapter in, if I remove it then it will no longer work...stupid.