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Parallels vs Bootcamp for Windows 8?
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You likely have an OEM product key tied to your windows laptop. Windows may not want to activate, you can try though!
Surely if I created a new partition and installed windows on that, it wouldn't know that its on the same computer. A partition has nothing to do with the other part of your hard drive?
MS office will run fine in parallels
any modern game will only run well in bootcamp
accounting/tax software will run fine in parallels
Parallels is actually $50:
http://download.purplus.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=33323
And it's way better than BootCamp. Only the feature that gives you the ability to work simultaneously with both OSX and WIN worth the money. And no, it does not require a special partition like Bootcamp and it's better than any other VM that I've tried (in terms of speed and smoothness of the OS itself).
http://download.purplus.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=33323
And it's way better than BootCamp. Only the feature that gives you the ability to work simultaneously with both OSX and WIN worth the money. And no, it does not require a special partition like Bootcamp and it's better than any other VM that I've tried (in terms of speed and smoothness of the OS itself).
I thought you meant you had an actual laptop that CAME with windows, and you wanted to use that key. If that's not it please disregard.
got the retina macbook with 8 gigs of ram, is it enough to run parallels fast and without hitches and slowdowns? Can I work with both environments without having slowdowns and poor performance? Please if possible answer to me on this, it is quite important. Thanks!
[you can run Bootcamp AND Parallels. You just reboot into full native Windows when you want to run games, but if you're just using Office or something less taxing on the hardware, you can boot into Windows under Parallels and there's no need to restart. Both use the same partition and the same base OS files, so if you make a change in one, it'll be available in the other.[/QUOTE]
If this is the path I will take, is that mean I need 2 licenses of Windows (1 for parallel and 1 for bootcamp)?
If this is the path I will take, is that mean I need 2 licenses of Windows (1 for parallel and 1 for bootcamp)?
Works great with my base rMBP 15" (8GB RAM).got the retina macbook with 8 gigs of ram, is it enough to run parallels fast and without hitches and slowdowns? Can I work with both environments without having slowdowns and poor performance? Please if possible answer to me on this, it is quite important. Thanks!
Τhanks for your reply, you have proper performance in both windows and osx via parallels? Do you get any page outs?
Proper performance depends on your usage. If you are going to use super heavy stuff on both platforms simultaneously, so probably it wouldn't work very well. I use mainly databases and large excel files on my WIN machine, while other stuff are open on my OSX [mainly the same files, but with a different format since I need to adjust it to WIN users all the time]. I haven't checked page outs.
i wouldn't say "it's way better than BootCamp"....it's actually depends on what the user wants out of it.
for me, i would like to do a bit of gaming. so Bootcamp is better so i can fully use the discrete video card.
and for others that just want basic word documents and such, than parallel would be more suitable.
Uhhh... all of these have a Mac version (ChemDraw was even originally Mac-only) that will be offered by a university with a site-license...
External hd for Bootcamp
I just purchased a Mac Mini 2012( my first ever Mac) and I have an external 1.5 T hd, my Mac Hd is only 500G, can I put Bootcamp with Windows 7 on the external drive? If so how. I am new to Apple products. Thanks.
I just purchased a Mac Mini 2012( my first ever Mac) and I have an external 1.5 T hd, my Mac Hd is only 500G, can I put Bootcamp with Windows 7 on the external drive? If so how. I am new to Apple products. Thanks.
I strongly agree.
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No, Bootcamp cannot go on an external drive.
Microsoft in the past has tied an OEM key to the motherboard of the PC it was first installed on. So if you try to put it on a different machine that key will not activate. I can't confirm for a fact they still do that but I highly doubt Microsoft has changed that policy, especially for OEM keys. A full retail key at least used to be allowed to move from one motherboard to another, but not an OEM key.
Now has win 8 and parallels OEM for 149
Greetings. A little late to the game but I'm in the process of installing windows 8 to my macbook. I followed your link and they had a great deal for both the Windows 8 OS and parallels for 149. Thanks for the tip!
Greetings. A little late to the game but I'm in the process of installing windows 8 to my macbook. I followed your link and they had a great deal for both the Windows 8 OS and parallels for 149. Thanks for the tip!