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Best method to play games on MBP 13"
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Best method would be to return the 13" and buy a 15" if you want remotely good results. If your happy to play at about 1-20 FPS at everything low settings then fine.
Would you rather rather run a game at only a portion of your hardware's capabilities? Boot camp utilizes your hardware as it is while virtualization softwares like Parallels and Vmware use only part of it
Your GPU is already barely able to play BF3. With Parallels etc. you are looking at at least 2-3 times performance degradation. I doubt that playing games at 5fps is fun
You're going to be sadly disappointed with the performance of your 13" when playing games. My 2011 Mac Mini (admittedly HD 3000, not HD 4000 like yours) struggles to play Left 4 Dead 2, a game I don't consider to be very graphically intensive. Chances are, you're going to have a pretty poor experience with BF3. Diablo 3, on the lowest settings, is barely playable on my machine and suffers loads of lag. I know the HD 4000 is meant to improve things, but without a dedicated graphics card, I think you'll be out of luck. All the best, though!