Bootcamp vs Parallels
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- camer
I need to run windows on a new mac, actually my friend needs to run windows on a new mac. I have not done this before and need some help. My friend is was in the middle of writing her doctorate when her PC died. Now she bought a new mac thinking she can run whatever she wants using windows on mac.
I've heard of it being done, but never needed to do it. Can you point me in the direction of what I would need. I know nothing of PC or windows....
Shanks
- prophetone0
boot camp info, assuming she has the latest os on an intel mac
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT37…- duh, why didn't I think of that... I just figured people here do it. Is one better than the other?camer
- prophetone0
i run vmware fusion which is like parallels. but boot camp is prob the way to go as it provides a native boot into either the win or mac os on startup. and pretty sure performance will be maxed out vs. parallels or vmwf.
just wait and someone who uses boot camp will chime in.
- cheers. it needs to be idiot proof...even though she's a doctor.camer
- dragonfruit0
parallels is great works perfectly and never any problem with anything and working with software lilke 3Dsmax and realflow...
- she needs to run word processing shit and access her old files, nothing crazycamer
- Hombre_Lobo0
But what's better, mac or pc?
- chrisRG0
vm ware fusion is easy to setup and run.
- dragonfruit0
if she is going to run word processing shit, i think any will do. i dont know any of the other ones but i like the ability to open windows right from os x as opposed to booting every time...
- comicsans0
Parallels works well (as I guess does vmware), if performance is an absolute premium (think gaming) or you are just using the Mac as a Windows machine then go with bootcamp. Otherwise, it is nice to switch between the 2 at will.
- CyBrainX0
In Boot Camp you can't switch between OSs without restarting the computer. That's a deal-breaker in my opinion. I have Parallels at home and VM Fusion at work. In both it's very difficult to transfer things between the Mac and PC sections of your computer. My preference would be Parallels, then VM Fusion and I wouldn't even consider Bootcamp.
- perfunct0
both, if you want
1. install win to boot camp partition.
2. create virtual machine with boot camp partition in parallels.
http://download.parallels.com/de…
- oddslob0
If she has ZERO interest in using the Mac OS, use bootcamp, get it set up for her so the computer starts in Windows and she essentially has a windows computer. (not sure why she spent all that money on the mac then).
If she is interested in learning a new system, Parallels and VM Fusion can run windows apps as if they were mac apps, meaning they open up in their windows looking window, without the windows desktop and all that shit mucking up the Mac UI. Resources definitely take a hit, and is pretty noticable unless you have a brand brand new machine, since it's basically running 2 operating systems at once.
- She wants to use both, obviously Mac is better. But she needs some old pc softwarecamer
- lukus_W0
Virtualbox is great.
- moldero0
i hate bootcamp, i use parallels. for slower macs though like imacs with not too much ram depending on your windows use, bootcamp might be better.
- Hombre_Lobo0
@oddslob
yeh bootcamp is impressive. It is complete windows isnt it? not like parallels or VMware which wont have the performance of bootcamp.
- but obviously vmware and parallels will be fine for anything not too intensive.Hombre_Lobo
- camer0
HI friends again, I tried to do the bootcamp install today and it failed miserably. I followed all the directions but windows got all hung up on step two of the installation. It got to 1% then just hung there....for an hour...and did nothing.
She had tried several times to do this and each time windows takes forever to install. She said one time it took all night and then in the morning when she tried to load up windows she saw the bootiing windows page with the four colors and then BAM - all black. Nothing. She had to hold the button...
Tomorrow I'm going to try again, let it do it's thing then try and erase the video card driver from the command line. People are saying this works.Question, in boot camp assistant the first screen says to download the extra drivers from the net and not to use one's on a disc. The options are to burn a cd or dvd or save it to an external drive. I tried to save to an external drive but it wouldn't go. So tomorrow I'll burn to disc. Do I need to do this step?? I have an osx boot disc. Aren't drivers I need on that?
- camer0
Is parallels ease to setup? I looked a bit on the virtual box too but seems you need to know your way around the back end of mac pretty well.
Windows should only take about 20-30 minutes to install on a brand new 27 inch iMac with fully updated software, no?
- oddslob0
Free demo dude. https://nct.parallels.com/fulfil…
