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New To Mac's..need some advice..
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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 906647" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>For your first question, I would purchase an external hard drive case for your drive. You can do this a few ways but here are two.</p><p></p><p>Put the new larger drive in the USB/Firewire external case and use Carbon Copy Cloner and clone the old drive to the new one.</p><p></p><p>You can also put in the new drive in the computer and use the Install DVD and install OSX. Then put the old drive in the USB/FW case and migrate the settings and files to the new install. Either way will work.</p><p></p><p>For your second question, it all depends on what you want to do with Windows. If it's just basic things like a few apps that you need and can not run under OSX, use Parallels or VMWare as you can still be in OSX and use your Windows and apps right on the OSX desktop. </p><p></p><p>If you need more demanding Windows usage like 3D and demanding games, for sure you want Bootcamp as it's just like running Windows on a Windows machine of the same specs as the Mac. You do not want to try 3D and Gaming in a VM.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 906647, member: 8287"] For your first question, I would purchase an external hard drive case for your drive. You can do this a few ways but here are two. Put the new larger drive in the USB/Firewire external case and use Carbon Copy Cloner and clone the old drive to the new one. You can also put in the new drive in the computer and use the Install DVD and install OSX. Then put the old drive in the USB/FW case and migrate the settings and files to the new install. Either way will work. For your second question, it all depends on what you want to do with Windows. If it's just basic things like a few apps that you need and can not run under OSX, use Parallels or VMWare as you can still be in OSX and use your Windows and apps right on the OSX desktop. If you need more demanding Windows usage like 3D and demanding games, for sure you want Bootcamp as it's just like running Windows on a Windows machine of the same specs as the Mac. You do not want to try 3D and Gaming in a VM. [/QUOTE]
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