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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1636181">What are the specs? Open About This Mac and tell us what it says.&nbsp; &nbsp;Boot Camp boots windows, turning the hardware into a windows machine, period. Virtual machines are software packages that LOOK like windows, but are running in a OS X window so that you can go back and forth without rebooting. Because your are running in an emulator, there are some performance hits doing that, but I find that Parallels is pretty good and frankly I don't see the performance hit at all. Of course, if I were running a TRUE hardware Windows (or Boot Camp) I would install Antivirus, but because it's a Virtual machine I don't. My rationale is that if/when it gets infected, I'll just kill the virtual machine file and restore from my backups to a file from before the infection. I only use my Windows machine for Photoshop to drive an old printer that Yosemite abandoned but which has drivers for Win7. It's a business printer for my wife's business so it was a MUST.&nbsp;Lesson learned? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp;Yep.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1636181"] What are the specs? Open About This Mac and tell us what it says. Boot Camp boots windows, turning the hardware into a windows machine, period. Virtual machines are software packages that LOOK like windows, but are running in a OS X window so that you can go back and forth without rebooting. Because your are running in an emulator, there are some performance hits doing that, but I find that Parallels is pretty good and frankly I don't see the performance hit at all. Of course, if I were running a TRUE hardware Windows (or Boot Camp) I would install Antivirus, but because it's a Virtual machine I don't. My rationale is that if/when it gets infected, I'll just kill the virtual machine file and restore from my backups to a file from before the infection. I only use my Windows machine for Photoshop to drive an old printer that Yosemite abandoned but which has drivers for Win7. It's a business printer for my wife's business so it was a MUST. Lesson learned? :D Yep. [/QUOTE]

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