Boot Camp Help

Hi,

First off I'm fairly new to owning apple products from general and I'm very impressed compared to other products. I have a Macbook Pro mid 2012. I have a 2.5Ghz Intel Core i5 with OS X 10.8.3. I want to run windows for a few windows games and for multiple engineering programs that work only with windows. So my question is what is the best way to do this? I know there are parallels and shortcuts to get these programs but I think running boot camp will be the safest and easiest. And then I still need to get windows so what windows version would perform the best? Thank you all

G'day and welcome to the forums.

Suggest Windows 7 in 64 bit version. This allows your MBP to fully utilize all the memory installed. As to Home, Premium, Ultimate etc. guess what you need is up to you. Makje sure you print and study the BootCamp guidelines. These will appear when you open the BootCamp Assistant in utilities.

Windows 8 will also install as you are using OS X.8.3.