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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1430102" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>I don't have a Retina MacBook Pro, but there's nothing particularly unique about it, other than its limited disk capacity, that would make it any different from another Mac in terms of advisable ways to run other OSes.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I use VMWare Fusion to run both. If I were gaming on my laptop, I would run Windows 7 in Boot Camp, but I'd rather conserve the space (Fusion only grows the virtual disk as big as it needs to be, while with Boot Camp or rEFIt, the partition size is static).</p><p></p><p>I see no reason to ever run Linux natively - the only weakness of virtualization is in apps/games that require heavy 3D acceleration. Off the top, I can think of few applications on Linux that could stand to benefit from it. </p><p></p><p>The benefits of running alternate OSes in virtualization heavily outweigh the disadvantages, IMO. In addition to only taking up the amount of disk space as is absolutely necessary, virtualization allows far greater flexibility, with much less risk to your data and disk structure. You can run your Linux and Windows apps in tandem with your Mac apps and seamlessly share data amongst the different OSes. With Boot Camp and/or rEFIt, you'll spend more of your time shuffling data around, backing up and rebooting than actually enjoying the other OSes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1430102, member: 24098"] I don't have a Retina MacBook Pro, but there's nothing particularly unique about it, other than its limited disk capacity, that would make it any different from another Mac in terms of advisable ways to run other OSes. Personally, I use VMWare Fusion to run both. If I were gaming on my laptop, I would run Windows 7 in Boot Camp, but I'd rather conserve the space (Fusion only grows the virtual disk as big as it needs to be, while with Boot Camp or rEFIt, the partition size is static). I see no reason to ever run Linux natively - the only weakness of virtualization is in apps/games that require heavy 3D acceleration. Off the top, I can think of few applications on Linux that could stand to benefit from it. The benefits of running alternate OSes in virtualization heavily outweigh the disadvantages, IMO. In addition to only taking up the amount of disk space as is absolutely necessary, virtualization allows far greater flexibility, with much less risk to your data and disk structure. You can run your Linux and Windows apps in tandem with your Mac apps and seamlessly share data amongst the different OSes. With Boot Camp and/or rEFIt, you'll spend more of your time shuffling data around, backing up and rebooting than actually enjoying the other OSes. [/QUOTE]
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