Parallels or boot camp?

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I have boot camp running windows xp and im still using osx 10.4.11

Recently I've really wanted to switch to parallels so i can open up windows and and still be in osx at the same time.

Has anyone switched to this before? Im not sure how I would delete that windows partition and have osx regain that hdd space...

also if I were to go the parallels route where does everything get installed to?
 
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Gaming is the only reason I would ever use Boot Camp. Parallels is great. It will create the virtual machines in your Documents by default I believe. You can remove the Boot Camp partition in Boot Camp Assistant.
 
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Ok good, wanted to make sure taking off the bootcamp partition wouldn't mess with my OSX partition.

I'm assuming it's pretty easy to install Parallels then?
 
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Ok good, wanted to make sure taking off the bootcamp partition wouldn't mess with my OSX partition.

I'm assuming it's pretty easy to install Parallels then?

Simple. I was a Fusion user, but for me Windows 7 runs much better on Parallels. I ended up getting a sweet deal for coming over from Fusion.
 

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