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How much to give for bootcamp?

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romeo26

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I have a mbp with a 500 gb hdd. How much ould you give to bootcamp?

I plan on running games, half life, l4d2, boarderlands.
 
30gb should give you enough to add as many pirated games as you like. Did I say pirated? Well it's not like we don't all know :p
 
Nope...they wont be pirated games...ill be using steam! How much does windows 7 actually take?
 
It all depends on how much you plan on using windows. I have a windows partition with VM Ware and I could probably count on one hand the times I've used it in the last year and a half. I gave it 32gb and that was too much.
 
I allocated 100GB on my 500GB drive <shrug>.

It all depends upon what you're going to do with it.
 
I'm not sure, but I sure wouldn't run it under 10gb.

Since Steam is download-based it also applies to what I was hinting at with pirating; it's going to take space per-game.

Just click the 30gb option and you should be able to download every Steam game you ever wanted, all five of them.
 
I set aside 65 gb for my windows partition; I have Windows 7, GTA 4 and Wolfenstein (09) installed and there are currently 25 gb free.
 
Just to add, my Windows 7 Ultimate installation took about 24 GB of space.

Remember you W7 will need temp/swap space, etc.

HD space is dang near free. If you're really going to "use" Windows, make sure and allocate enough space up front so you don't cause yourself pain down the road.
 
MrCheeto said:
30gb should give you enough to add as many pirated games as you like. Did I say pirated? Well it's not like we don't all know :p
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30GB ?!! It won't be enough for sure.

I just installed BC on my 500GB and gave 130GB to Win7. The games are more and more bigger.
 
When I had Vista, I initially allocated 32gb but that quickly disappeared. When I installed 7, I gave it 60gb and i've already used 40gb just installing the programs I use daily, which are, Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3, Autocad '11, Revit '11, 3ds Max '11, Maya '11, Rhinoceros 4, SketchUp 7 and Google Earth.
 
I tried giving it 50 gig but SL complained that it couldn't move some crucial files, that I needed to repartition and reinstall EVERYTHING. It didn't complain about 32 gig, but now I only have 15 gig left after installing W7 Ultimate 64bit
 
I have 200GB of games on my Windows PC, so I'd need at least 200GB on Boot Camp (don't currently have Boot Camp running on my Macbook). Be sure to allocate enough for everything you have, and some expansion. Try to decide what large files you'll actually have in Mac OS X.
 
grodgers said:
HD space is dang near free. If you're really going to "use" Windows, make sure and allocate enough space up front so you don't cause yourself pain down the road.
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SSD space is far from free. I've got a 160GB SSD (only) in my MBP. Would like to use bootcamp, but anything over about 32 GB would start to be a problem. Still mulling this over...
 
I had 32gb and realized that was too small once I installed steam. Jumped to 100 and now its more then enough. Once May 12th comes around I will repartition it again to be way less.
 
I just set up my bootcamp/parallels partition last night. I allocated 125/500gb to windows. Although I plan to use windows for more than just gaming, as I also have a couple engineering programs that may chew up some space. Hope this helps your decision!
Regards
 
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