I have a mid 2010 MacBook Pro 15 with 8gb ram and a 300 mb HDD, running yosemite 10.1. I'm am going to upgrade the HDD with a 500 MB Samsung EVO SSD.
Currently I have the disk partitioned to 200 MB OS/x and 100 MB bootcamp partition with Windows 7 pro. I run Autocad Lite, a finite element program, and a database program on the windows side. Since rebooting into bootcamp tends to be for some time, I also have outlook running so I can access email.
I recently installed parallels 10, and installed using the 'install on the bootcamp drive' option.
This leaves me with a few conundrums and questions.
Clean install vs. Carbon Copy? The machine is fairly clean, I think, and i have spent the last couple days reorganizing folders and deleting junk files and software. I've moved all my document files off of the bootcamp partition and over to the OS/x partition. I understand I need a separate program to clone or copy the bootcamp partition.
Keep a native bootcamp partition or reinstall all windows software on a virtual machine? I'm not sure how this works - I keep reading about parallels loosing VM's on occasion - would keeping a native bootcamp partition at least allow me to work while sorting out issues with the VM. If you go with an all VM install are all my auto cad files buried in the .pvm file and not accessible if something goes haywire with a VM.
I understand time machine has yosemite issues, assuming that gets fixed - if you run an all VM setup does TM then actually back up the VM as well - since its just a file. A native bootcamp partition would have to have a separate back up program, correct?
John
Currently I have the disk partitioned to 200 MB OS/x and 100 MB bootcamp partition with Windows 7 pro. I run Autocad Lite, a finite element program, and a database program on the windows side. Since rebooting into bootcamp tends to be for some time, I also have outlook running so I can access email.
I recently installed parallels 10, and installed using the 'install on the bootcamp drive' option.
This leaves me with a few conundrums and questions.
Clean install vs. Carbon Copy? The machine is fairly clean, I think, and i have spent the last couple days reorganizing folders and deleting junk files and software. I've moved all my document files off of the bootcamp partition and over to the OS/x partition. I understand I need a separate program to clone or copy the bootcamp partition.
Keep a native bootcamp partition or reinstall all windows software on a virtual machine? I'm not sure how this works - I keep reading about parallels loosing VM's on occasion - would keeping a native bootcamp partition at least allow me to work while sorting out issues with the VM. If you go with an all VM install are all my auto cad files buried in the .pvm file and not accessible if something goes haywire with a VM.
I understand time machine has yosemite issues, assuming that gets fixed - if you run an all VM setup does TM then actually back up the VM as well - since its just a file. A native bootcamp partition would have to have a separate back up program, correct?
John