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Running Windows on your Mac
Im really confused about bootcamp and parallels
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<blockquote data-quote="Neo" data-source="post: 463208" data-attributes="member: 36256"><p><strong>Fusion v. Parallels v. Boot Camp</strong></p><p></p><p>I have a new MacBook, running XP with Boot Camp. Do I want to use Parallels or Fusion instead? Boot Camp is working well for me, primarily because I am a Switcher, so everything I use is on the Windows OS. I rarely boot to OS X.</p><p>The main point of Boot Camp is that /Windows is running natively/. It's indistinguishable from XP on my old Gateway laptop.</p><p></p><p>I was considering getting better acquainted with the Mac OS and so going to Parallels or Fusion, where, in contrast to Boot Camp, /Windows is a virtual machine/. I worry this will really slow down performance (I have 1 GB RAM). Is anyone consistently running Windows in Parallels or Fusion? Have you noticed a slowdown? Do you have a benchmark using Boot Camp, or even a PC? Please, no exposition here...from experience only.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neo, post: 463208, member: 36256"] [b]Fusion v. Parallels v. Boot Camp[/b] I have a new MacBook, running XP with Boot Camp. Do I want to use Parallels or Fusion instead? Boot Camp is working well for me, primarily because I am a Switcher, so everything I use is on the Windows OS. I rarely boot to OS X. The main point of Boot Camp is that /Windows is running natively/. It's indistinguishable from XP on my old Gateway laptop. I was considering getting better acquainted with the Mac OS and so going to Parallels or Fusion, where, in contrast to Boot Camp, /Windows is a virtual machine/. I worry this will really slow down performance (I have 1 GB RAM). Is anyone consistently running Windows in Parallels or Fusion? Have you noticed a slowdown? Do you have a benchmark using Boot Camp, or even a PC? Please, no exposition here...from experience only. [/QUOTE]
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