Bootcamp or Parallels
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- trevedda
Thinking of getting a new mac - MacBookPro. Am PC based at the moment (Sony Vaio Notebook). Is Bootcamp stable enough to rely on and use commercially or should I be looking at Parallels. Basically I have to be able to run PS/flash etc. and from what I can gather they're crap on Intel Macs. I don't really want to buy a PC again as they look like shit but I do need to be commercially sensitive as I need it to "run my business". So I can't have something which is "flakey". Any thoughts or real world experience?
- Witt0
i have no real world 3xp3ri3nc3
- jpea0
you'll be fine with either. boot camp has good driver support and is rock solid, and parallels has never hiccupped for me. if you want to use PS or other larger apps in parallels though, get at least 2 gigs of ram in the machine.
- blastofv0
can you upgrade an older PC version of Photoshop to a newer Mac version? I'd say eventually you'd want to just run Mac apps if you're going to commit to switching over. If you can upgrade, I'd do that once CS3 comes out, as the speed etc. will be fixed up on the Intel Macs.
- trevedda0
OK thanks. Will begin to place my order with dear old apple!
- mightyj0
bootcamp you have to restart to use a different OS is parallels the same?
- trevedda0
As I understand it Parallels is a virtual machine so no reboot required.
- trevedda0
As I understand it Parallels is a virtual machine so no reboot required.
- trevedda0
As I understand it Parallels is a virtual machine so no reboot required.
- jpea0
correct. it's nice and fast, plus you can suspend a virtual machine which basically just pauses what you had open and were doing in windows and lets you resume it very quickly once you open parallels again. hell, it's even faster than using a windows box for start up times and such :)
- subversve0
note: bootcamp has issues with the ati x1600 video card in MBPs. becuase of driver issues, the screen has a dithered sort of noise. i'm assuming that apple is going to fix it in the final version, but for now you need to stick with parallels on any mac intel machine with the ati video card.