Windows 7 for Macbook Pro advice

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Hi guys, I have a dilemma:
I'm still just about eligible for Windows 7 professional at student discount price, but in March Microshhhoft are going to stop student discounts etc so should I buy myself a discounted copy of Windows 7 upgrade and boot camp it on my macbook pro?
I'm running 13.3" mid-2010 2.66ghz c2d 4gb 1067 ram, about 190gb free HDD space left, etc etc,
Should I bother with bootcamp? I could put Steam games and some audio software etc on. Although most of my audio software, Cubase, Logic, Reason, runs best on mac.
How does it run with my setup? It's about the most performance you can get from a MBP... the current ones are a little better with a 2.7ghz i5 but essentially there's no difference between that and my 2.66 c2d.
Any advice would be welcomed; do I really want windows on? haha
Thanks
 
Are you asking how Win 7 will run on that hardware? It'll run well, just as quick as OSX.

I have Win 7 Bootcamp on mine and tend to use it 50/50 between OSX & Win7 so i'd say yeah, if you can do it, do it.
 
It'll run as well as it does on the same spec PC laptop, that's to say fine. If you are going to game then Boot Camp it, otherwise upgrade to 8GB RAM and use Parallels.
 
I only use Windows to game on my macbook but runs great when i'm in there, just the same as a windows laptop of the same spec.
 
There is a good offer on Parallels here at the moment:
http://macsuperbundle.com/

Otherwise I would suggest VMWare or even the free VirtualBox instead as they don't restrict you too 1 Mac install and they don't have such an anal upgrade policy that pretty much forces you to pay full price every year to stay up to date.
 
There is a good offer on Parallels here at the moment:
http://macsuperbundle.com/

Otherwise I would suggest VMWare or even the free VirtualBox instead as they don't restrict you too 1 Mac install and they don't have such an anal upgrade policy that pretty much forces you to pay full price every year to stay up to date.
Top man, I've been looking for a Parallels deal for a while.
 
I have Windows 7 Ultimate and OSX Lion on my MacBook Pro running under Bootcamp and I think it works perfectly once you get over a few driver niggles. I run a little app that puts up a nice little menu at boot with a Apple/Windows menu and select the OS I want and off I go. I can access both drives from within each OS, so file transfers are simple and I don't even need to have both OS's running at the same time so didn't see the point in running Windows in some virtual environment with OSX as it doesn't perform as well.

I think it works really well actually under bootcamp.
 
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