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macOS - Notebook Hardware
Using Macbook air 2017 as a Monitor for a Custom Windows PC
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1788295" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Well, you could buy a larger screen (15") MBP, use Bootcamp to boot into Windows to do the video editing and then reboot into macOS for everything else. To move files from one side to the other an external drive could be used. That way you have just one machine to do both jobs and a lot less to carry around. Just get plenty of memory and plenty of drive space. The memory to ensure good speed video processing under Windows and the drive space because it will be shared between macOS and Windows. </p><p></p><p>Another alternative MIGHT be to use something like Parallels or VMWare to run a Window virtual machine under macOS directly and avoid the use of Bootcamp. When I run Windows under Parallel on my MBP the graphics is switched to the dedicated GPU and does not switch back. There is a slight speed hit because of the emulation, but the drive is automatically shared between the two systems, a nice feature. But in any case either option is better than lugging a laptop, a PC and a monitor around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1788295, member: 396914"] Well, you could buy a larger screen (15") MBP, use Bootcamp to boot into Windows to do the video editing and then reboot into macOS for everything else. To move files from one side to the other an external drive could be used. That way you have just one machine to do both jobs and a lot less to carry around. Just get plenty of memory and plenty of drive space. The memory to ensure good speed video processing under Windows and the drive space because it will be shared between macOS and Windows. Another alternative MIGHT be to use something like Parallels or VMWare to run a Window virtual machine under macOS directly and avoid the use of Bootcamp. When I run Windows under Parallel on my MBP the graphics is switched to the dedicated GPU and does not switch back. There is a slight speed hit because of the emulation, but the drive is automatically shared between the two systems, a nice feature. But in any case either option is better than lugging a laptop, a PC and a monitor around. [/QUOTE]
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