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First time Mac Buyer has some questions.
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<blockquote data-quote="katey" data-source="post: 582956" data-attributes="member: 47139"><p>Hi Adam, im also wondering some of these things. As i've been eyeing off macs for a few years, since bootcamp came out I thought my next laptop might aswell be a mac, I think I can answer some of questions based on logic and things I have read.</p><p></p><p>Having an extra OS on a partition should have no affect on the performance of the OS you have booted. That goes for any system. Im not sure on partition size 30 gig is probably plenty unless your installing WOW or something. I would be using XP.</p><p></p><p>I have also read about parallels desktop and it seems to good to be true. So know doubt it is. Parallels is the reason I would get a mac as I have software that I need to run every day that only runs on windows. So if I can have a mac and run my 1 windows program in parralels I would be happy. It can also run off your bootcamp installation instead of having to have 2 windows installs.</p><p></p><p>From what I understand parallels does run slower than bootcamp but thats to be expected. The 3d support in it doesn't run well enough to play games in high resolutions or large windows but it should be fine for any other sorts of apps.</p><p></p><p>If I can run virtual windows and linux on mac osx at the same time i'd be in heaven. I guess someone who has a mac and does this that can comment how well it actually works would be great.</p><p></p><p>I think most windows users don't know macs can run windows now and certainly not many know they can run windows apps inside osx. If they did who would buy a PC? (besides gamers)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="katey, post: 582956, member: 47139"] Hi Adam, im also wondering some of these things. As i've been eyeing off macs for a few years, since bootcamp came out I thought my next laptop might aswell be a mac, I think I can answer some of questions based on logic and things I have read. Having an extra OS on a partition should have no affect on the performance of the OS you have booted. That goes for any system. Im not sure on partition size 30 gig is probably plenty unless your installing WOW or something. I would be using XP. I have also read about parallels desktop and it seems to good to be true. So know doubt it is. Parallels is the reason I would get a mac as I have software that I need to run every day that only runs on windows. So if I can have a mac and run my 1 windows program in parralels I would be happy. It can also run off your bootcamp installation instead of having to have 2 windows installs. From what I understand parallels does run slower than bootcamp but thats to be expected. The 3d support in it doesn't run well enough to play games in high resolutions or large windows but it should be fine for any other sorts of apps. If I can run virtual windows and linux on mac osx at the same time i'd be in heaven. I guess someone who has a mac and does this that can comment how well it actually works would be great. I think most windows users don't know macs can run windows now and certainly not many know they can run windows apps inside osx. If they did who would buy a PC? (besides gamers) [/QUOTE]
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