Running windows on my MacBook Pro?

[shot2bits]

Hi all, sorry for the lame question but I'm about to run Window's on my MacBook Pro using virtualisation. Need to use Visio 🙁

I have a 2011 15" - would I install the 64bit or the 32bit version of Window's 7?

Thanks in advance.. Rob.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

Hi all, sorry for the lame question but I'm about to run Window's on my MacBook Pro using virtualisation. Need to use Visio 🙁

I have a 2011 15" - would I install the 64bit or the 32bit version of Window's 7?

Thanks in advance.. Rob.

I use 64bit Windows 7 with Parallels. Had no problems at all.

 

[ale500]

The easy part is that you can try both and see which one runs better 🙂. But It shouldn't make a big difference unless is an old version that refuses to run on W7....

 

[Deeps]

I use 64bit Windows 7 with Parallels. Had no problems at all.

I use the same and had no issues either 🙂

 

[cginn]

I also recommend 64bit Windows 7 with Parallels. On my 2011 2.3 15" MBP I get Geekbench scores around 3800 on the Windows 7 side. This is faster than my son's new low end Dell laptop scores.

 

[dusk007]

Parallels never worked very well for me. I have better experience with VMWare.
Anyway trying to use a bootcamp 32bit Windows 7 as a VM too did work. The 64bit however didn't and I had troubles starting it normal again. Now bootcamp works again but I wouldn't it.

 

[shot2bits]

Hi, I have Win 7 but it's currenty a .IMG file on my PC. Imageburn wont burn it because my drive isn't working correctly - getting an error saying "device not ready (No reference position found)"

So, anybody know if a Mac can burn or deal with a .IMG file?

Decided on VirtualBox by the way..

Rob.