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Running Windows on your Mac
Windows 7 slows down Mac?
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<blockquote data-quote="iHarrison" data-source="post: 1247474" data-attributes="member: 195020"><p><strong>The key difference is between Virtualised and Native OSs</strong></p><p></p><p>It's probably people trying to run Windows 7 Ultimate in emulation (via Parallels, VMware Fusion, VirtualBox, etc.) on older Macs that just aren't up to spec.</p><p></p><p>Bear in mind that a Mac running Windows is essentially just another PC, and so the minimum hardware specifications for any particular version of Windows will be the same. If you try to emulate Windows 7 on a Mac that only has the minimum requirements for that one OS, then sharing capability between Win7 & OSX will mean that both are underpowered.</p><p></p><p>However, BootCamp is not an emulator; it's a combination of an extension to Disk Utility that creates a NTFS partition on your Mac's main boot drive for installing Windows on, and the "Bootcamp.exe" App to run in Windows once you've installed it - the App adds the option to pick the primary boot partition in the Windows control panel, and installs all the drivers for any multi-touch or Apple-specific Bluetooth input devices, iSight/FaceTime camera, etc.</p><p></p><p>Once that's done, then you'll have probably the best PC there is! Windows, but with custom Mac-hardware drivers (ported directly from OSX's own bespoke Kexts) - and with the option to switch between them just by holding-down the Option key when you reboot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iHarrison, post: 1247474, member: 195020"] [b]The key difference is between Virtualised and Native OSs[/b] It's probably people trying to run Windows 7 Ultimate in emulation (via Parallels, VMware Fusion, VirtualBox, etc.) on older Macs that just aren't up to spec. Bear in mind that a Mac running Windows is essentially just another PC, and so the minimum hardware specifications for any particular version of Windows will be the same. If you try to emulate Windows 7 on a Mac that only has the minimum requirements for that one OS, then sharing capability between Win7 & OSX will mean that both are underpowered. However, BootCamp is not an emulator; it's a combination of an extension to Disk Utility that creates a NTFS partition on your Mac's main boot drive for installing Windows on, and the "Bootcamp.exe" App to run in Windows once you've installed it - the App adds the option to pick the primary boot partition in the Windows control panel, and installs all the drivers for any multi-touch or Apple-specific Bluetooth input devices, iSight/FaceTime camera, etc. Once that's done, then you'll have probably the best PC there is! Windows, but with custom Mac-hardware drivers (ported directly from OSX's own bespoke Kexts) - and with the option to switch between them just by holding-down the Option key when you reboot. [/QUOTE]
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