Boot Camp?

[Howard Brazee]

It appears that Leopard includes Boot Camp (http://www.apple.com/au/macosx/leopard/index.html).

My wife will be buying a Mac (probably with Leopard), but needs Windows for a while (I have extra copies of XP). She might keep Windows for a long time for some games. But if she's using it for games, I doubt if she wants to shut down her Mac to play them. That would indicate that Fusion or Parallels would be worth the money.

What should she be considering?

 

[balamw]

You know there's a whole forum for Windows on Mac issues.

Anyhow, if the games are 2D graphics and don't depend on 3D acceleration Parallels or VMWare should be OK. My kids play a number of their edutainment games in Parallels... I wouldn't expect WoW to work.

B

 

[72930]

You know there's a whole forum for Windows on Mac issues.

Anyhow, if the games are 2D graphics and don't depend on 3D acceleration Parallels or VMWare should be OK. My kids play a number of their edutainment games in Parallels... I wouldn't expect WoW to work.

B

For parallels she'll need a lot of RAM. 3D performance should improve greatly before leopard [/Crosses fingers\]

 

[Howard Brazee]

For parallels she'll need a lot of RAM. 3D performance should improve greatly before leopard [/Crosses fingers\]

For all three choices - how much RAM should she plan on having in her iMac?

 

[balamw]

For parallels she'll need a lot of RAM. 3D performance should improve greatly before leopard [/Crosses fingers\]

True, even for my modest needs it only became really usable after I upgraded the iMac to 2 GB.

Plus, I forgot to mention that with the latest beta of Parallels you don't have to pick since you can share one Windows install between Boot Camp and Parallels.

B

 

[aaronw1986]

Just to think about...Boot Camp is a codename and a program in beta. Yes, the real thing will be included with Leopard, but we have no way of knowing how it will work. It may not require a restart to boot windows. Hopefully we'll get more details tomorrow.