How compatible is Windows on a Mac?

[Saladsamurai]

On the 9400+9600 MBPs a big part of this is that the 9400 is disabled and the 9600 is used exclusively in Windows. From my experience, battery life on a Mac with Windows is comparable to a similarly specced Windows machine, so we should really say that the battery life is better on OS X.

B

Hey B. I am not familiar with what 9400+9600 means? What is that in reference to?

 

[balamw]

Hey B. I am not familiar with what 9400+9600 means? What is that in reference to?

Some MBPs (mid and high end 15" and 17" models through the most recent upgrade) have both an integrated video card (9400) and a discrete one (9600) The integrated one uses less power and extends battery life, the 9600 increases performance and decreases battery life even under OS X.

In OS X you can select which one to use, in Windows it only uses the shorter battery life one.

The most recent MBPs do something similar, but switch automatically between two video card/GPUs.

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[macfan881]

Hey B. I am not familiar with what 9400+9600 means? What is that in reference to?

If you have bootcamp installed I'd Recomend this site

http://www.yougamers.com/
it will scan your settings and Compare what you have and tell you if you meet the requirements and or can say you can run it but may need to fix your settings to this etc.

 

[yertle]

Both of those programs will run very well in a virtual machine via Parallels or VM Fusion. That's more convenient than BootCamp.

I'm sure you know that Quickbooks and Office have Mac versions and the data and files of both are interchangeable between the Mac and Windows versions.

I hear some on boards that Quickbooks Pro for Mac is not good. I don't know exactly what that's supposed to mean, but all I need is to be able to hand off my Quickbooks Pro files once a year to my tax accountant.

I had it stuck in my head that Quickbooks on mac is garbage. Maybe I'm wrong...

If the Mac version is sufficient for that, then I don't need any VM.... and I just today bought Parallels 5! Argh!

Thanks for the insight Hmac; it's be good not to use VM or bootcamp at all!!!