Windows on Macbook Pro - ME294TU/A

[VeyselOzan]

Hello,

I 'm an old minded guy who is using Windows for last 20 years and who wants to have a Macbook for last 10 years Always wanted, but had problems with the softwares that I was using.

And last week, I just bought it. I do not know anything about the operation system and I Think I will post too much as I have many many silly questions

My first problem is to have Windows (XP, 7 or 8, no problem with that) as I have some softwares. In fact one of the main reason is that, please let me know if I am wrong, but you can not have a path like "d:\dropbox\abc.xls". Because I have an excel file, which I can not change the formulas in it and one vlookup formula that is taking value from "d:\dropbox\abc.xls". And in Mac, even I install dropbox, I can not install it to a partition called "d:", right?

Because of the software need and also this Excel issue, I want to install Windows 8.

My questions:

1. Parallel is a good solution but the performance is lower, right?
2. With bootcamp, does the performance decreases compared with a Notebook designed for Windows (I have 512 SSD, 2.3 i7 processor and 16 GB ram. Lets assume that the other will also have the same system properties).
3. May be this is a sill question but Outlook is using PST files. Is there a way to use the same PST file both in Mac and in Windows?

Many thanks...

 

[Jeff Flowerday]

Hello,


1. Parallel is a good solution but the performance is lower, right?
2. With bootcamp, does the performance decreases compared with a Notebook designed for Windows (I have 512 SSD, 2.3 i7 processor and 16 GB ram. Lets assume that the other will also have the same system properties).
3. May be this is a sill question but Outlook is using PST files. Is there a way to use the same PST file both in Mac and in Windows?

Many thanks...

1) Yes.
2) No.
3) Yes. You could create a partition that both could read. Formatted exFat or something.

 

[VeyselOzan]

1) Yes.
2) No.
3) Yes. You could create a partition that both could read. Formatted exFat or something.

Thanks.

But I will need Microsoft Office for Mac also in Mac OS? Because default mail client cannot read PST files in MAC?

 

[saturnotaku]

Thanks.

But I will need Microsoft Office for Mac also in Mac OS? Because default mail client cannot read PST files in MAC?

If all you need Windows for is Office, you can install the alternate OS with Parallels or VMWare and run it that way.

 

[VeyselOzan]

If all you need Windows for is Office, you can install the alternate OS with Parallels or VMWare and run it that way.

Thanks for the information. Unfortunately, the Excel that I'm going to use is using terrible source So I need a clean seperate Windows for performance