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using Parells instead of bootcamp
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No, not really. Using Parallels (or any virtualization program) will use up more system resources. Think about it -- your Mac is running OS X, plus the virtualization program, plus whatever you're running inside the virtual machine. That's going to eat up a lot of RAM and processing power.
Boot Camp is the faster option, especially if you want to play PC games on your Mac.
Boot Camp is the faster option, especially if you want to play PC games on your Mac.
What kind of Mac do you have?
The graphics will not be the same, as it uses a virtualized graphics card,
I don't mind it at all, however I choose to dual boot with Windows 7 (boot camp).
Parallels 4.0 requires additional RAM, Processors and graphics memory to run (on top of OSX).
Optionally, you can also buy Parallels 4.0 and get it to run from your Boot Camp partition, basically this means you can game on OSX with Parallels 4.0, or you can boot into Windows (boot camp).
The graphics will not be the same, as it uses a virtualized graphics card,
I don't mind it at all, however I choose to dual boot with Windows 7 (boot camp).
Parallels 4.0 requires additional RAM, Processors and graphics memory to run (on top of OSX).
Optionally, you can also buy Parallels 4.0 and get it to run from your Boot Camp partition, basically this means you can game on OSX with Parallels 4.0, or you can boot into Windows (boot camp).