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Windows on MacBook Pro?

  • 29-06-2010 2:58pm
    #1
    lavinm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭


    Everybody seems to be switching to Mac these days and I am wondering if it is possible to have best of both worlds..... using a Mac book can you use boot camp to have 50% Mac and 50% Windows 7? You then decide on startup which one you would like Mac/PC.

    Has anyone out there tried this?

    MJ


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  • #2
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,698 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Yes, or you can run Windows from within Mac OS X via VMWare or Parallels.


  • #3
    was.deevey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭was.deevey


    Yep .. I only use bootcamp for casual gaming so I get 100% of the horsepower its great apart from the limitations of using Fat32. (You can use NTFS but reverting if you wanna remove the partition is a pain).

    For everything windows based I use VMware and have a dedicated screen (via spaces) for windows :) .. rock n' roll.

    Nothing like seeing someone face drop when they see you running 6 independent networked XP machines on a macbook :P alongside the OS hehe ... Bump your ram up!

    If you just want a few regular non-intensive windows apps running e.g. office, browsers, server etc.. and don't need multiple machines check out virtualbox (free) its like VMware with most of the bells and whistles.


  • #4
    nesf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,644 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    It works flawlessly for me, other than having a little trouble with installing Windows 7 due to a graphics card driver issue. Much easier than setting up dual booting on a PC which in itself isn't that hard to do.

    +1 on VMWare, use it a lot for all of my non-gaming Windows needs.

    You really do get the best of both worlds with a Mac these days since they moved to Intel chips.


  • #5
    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    I use VMWare to run Visual Studio and for editing things people send me in Visio.


  • #6
    BrookieD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭BrookieD


    i have at the moment a 2008 MacBook Pro 2.4ghz 4b ram, running OS x and Windows 7 Ultimate not via bootcamp but by rEFIt and it works a bloody treat.


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  • #7
    davmigil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 593 ✭✭✭davmigil


    Is vmware the preferred payed for option over parallels? I am using virtualbox, but would like some of the extra features offered by the former.


  • #8
    was.deevey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭was.deevey


    I've used all three....

    In order of preference

    1. VMware
    2. Virtualbox
    3. Parallels

    Parallels used to be my fav BTW .. and used since version 1 .. but VMWare kicks ass IMHO at this stage and very


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