I'm interested to know how OzBargainers run Windows on their Macs - Parallels, Fusion, Bootcamp?
Windows on a Mac
ShortyX on 07/02/2015 - 21:55
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That's what all the poor people say
We upgrade to a PC and run Windows natively.
Superb advice. Amazing reply ❤ ;)
hehe… good memory.
Boot camp Works well although it is simpler to find Mac equivalent apps or run an emulator to save reboot. Boot camp is best for windows native games.
I've used Fusion and Parallels for an increasingly small number of Windows apps that have no equivalent. Both are pretty much the same as when one product adds something new the other tends to add it in the next release.
Are you 12? You're supposed to leave the Nintendo/Sega thing in the schoolyard.
Ive never owned a Nintendo or Sega.
Troll attempt failed.
please try again.Nintendo/Sega: multiple generations' Mac/PC, iOS/Android, or Sony/Xbox, i.e. fanboy shit, the kind you seem to parrot.
I use parallels, works wonders, switch between both desktops. Even play a few games here and there :P.
How do games go in Parallels? Assuming not as good compared to Bootcamp?
Performance is better using bootcamp, here's a good summary http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=17140639&postcoun…
works well for what i use it for. I play gta san andreas multiplayer :P and gta 4 Both run great.
I used to have a MacBook pro but it died a years ago with a faulty gpu. I was using boot camp most of the time and it worked pretty well. I'm sure it's better now. I did use VMware too, but I found it unnecessary in the end.
The most usefully thing for me on Mac OS was Xcode otherwise I didn't really use it… But that's just my opinion.
If you are running it in Mac OS make sure you turn your firewall on… It's turned off by default!
Thanks. Did you mean you used Fusion but it was unnecessary because you had Bootcamp?
And does either method make that hard drive space unusable for OSX?
Bootcamp requires you to split your hdd into a separate partition for bootcamp. Fusion just consumes space like an app
You still can store stuff on the Windows partition, while in OSX if you use Paragon http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/
I have a full spec MacBook air and run bootcamp with no issues
I have fusion but it struggled with hybrid mode and i found it wasn't as responsive
I'm running windows 8.0
With the new ssd hdds I can boot into the other os within a minute or so
That way I can do work on windows and still have osx
So it's best of both worlds based on what I do
It really depends on what You need and how you use windows v osx as mine was pretty clear work vs play
If it is a quadcore CPU, and you are technially inclined, you can run windows as a virtual machine. But this is good only if you want windows for some particular tasks/apps.
Otherwise, dual boot.
What do you intend to do on the Windows OS?
I have used both boot camp and parallels and find boot camp much better. If you have a Mac with an SSD then restarts should take less than 30 secs so not a lot of time to switch if you need.
SSD SIZE IS THE LIMITER ON MACBOOKS/AIRS, WHATEVER YOU DO YOU WILL BE SPACE CONSTRAINED
My solution was to install XP and run under the free VM VIRTUALBOX , I could do this even on my AIR 128gb as i only needed 20gb for XP, APPS and SECURITY
I have Win7Pro64bit on a MBPRO 256gb, in a bootcamp 60gb partition but its rarely used, prefer to use the QUICKER XP for the odd windows requirement myself
I have clean installed win7/8 on a macbook (restoring was a pain so don't recommend) but the hardware did make for the best windows machine i've ever used IMO
BUT with lots of $250-350 laptops on sale now, why bother? Unless you ONLY have a mac but still want winOS access, but what for? Most apps are win/osx anyway with the exception of downloadmanagers, where windows seems to hold its own with freedownloadmananger and no osx equilvent?
There's very little that a Mac can't do that can be done on Windows. But for those rare occassions that I need it I use VirtualBox.
It's FREE, it's fast (most of the time it's faster to start up a saved Win session than going to a dedicated Win machine) and it integrates well with the Mac. You can have as many virtual machines as you like, eg. you might have Win XP, 7, & 8 as well as a few different flavours of Linux. Flipping between virtual machines and Mac OS is dead easy too.
the good thing is you can keep the VM images on a USB or external HD, saving precious space on a mac
Depend on what you need, if you want to run both Mac and Windows at the same time, then Parallels is pretty good, but if you don't really need to run both at the same time, the bootcamp will be fine.
Axelstrife on 07/02/2015 - 22:05 Comment score below threshold.