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Parallels or Bootcamp? which is better
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I would consider bootcamp only if i wanted to do gaming, for everything else parallels is fine.
You could have both though, right?
You could have both though, right?
Yes you can have both. From what I've read I would go with VMware Fusion 1.1 over Parallels 3.0 though because it's a little more up to date and faster.
It's slower because you're running two OS's at the same time and you're running Windows through a third party app instead of natively. It shouldn't be unstable though. Just not as fast as running one or the other by itself.
Well I don't know how intensive the applications you're running are. With that 2.5Ghz Penryn it can maybe handle running your stuff through Fusion no problem. You'll just have to try it and see. Parallels or Fusion are a good thing to have anyways cause then you can run MAC and Windows applications side by side.
I'd say they suck alot of power, I run Cubase Sx with Drumkitkit from Hell, Native Instruments FM8...Waves Compression plugins with multiple tracks and a few others, The more power the better I suppose. i just don't want to slow things down....so BC might be the better option.
I use BootCamp and Parallels. Parallels is used for personal finance (MS Money, 401k website that only works with IE). BootCamp is used for games and the rare DVD rips.
BootCamp is faster. But Parallels is much more convenient. If you're doing office-app type stuff, then Parallels is generally a much easier route. But if you need full performance, like for games, then you need BootCamp.
And if you want the maximum covenience, use Parallels (or Fusion) without a BootCamp partition, as they then dynamically adjust the disk space used accordng to what's needed. Whereas with BootCamp, you have to decide how much disk space to carve off for a partition and you're pretty much stuck with it from then on out (unless you want to reinstall everything to change it).
BootCamp is faster. But Parallels is much more convenient. If you're doing office-app type stuff, then Parallels is generally a much easier route. But if you need full performance, like for games, then you need BootCamp.
And if you want the maximum covenience, use Parallels (or Fusion) without a BootCamp partition, as they then dynamically adjust the disk space used accordng to what's needed. Whereas with BootCamp, you have to decide how much disk space to carve off for a partition and you're pretty much stuck with it from then on out (unless you want to reinstall everything to change it).
Don't think )) Run both! When you want to play, run Bootcamp, for work - parallels. Anyway parallels has too their own game-list! As for me, this list is enough.
The main reason I use parallels - I don't have to reboot!
Make sure when you divide up the memory with the virtual solution that you have enough for Windows and your Mac. Otherwise you will notice a HUGE difference in performance with Windows compared to Bootcamp Windows.
If you have 1 GB, just use Bootcamp.
If you have 1 GB, just use Bootcamp.
