advice/guide to dual booting

120_Minutes

so i'm getting ever closer to purchasing my mac (13" MBP) and am considering putting windows on it also.

What i'd like to know is: if i know before purchase that i want to dual boot, is it better to setup that way, or should i get the mac os sorted and then get the dual boot system running?

is there any benefit to putting 64 bit windows on a mac?

if im in windows can i browse the mac partition for files and vice versa?

thanks

drunkmonkey

I've windows 7 64bit on Bootcamp, it's simple set up, you basically open up bootcamp on your mac, stick in the windows disk and it does it all for you. You can do this when the mac is a day old of 5 years old it makes no odds.


If you want browse and use folders your best off use windows as a virtual machine with the likes of vm ware or parrells.

Tbh, the amount of times you use windows will be minimal, there's one or 2 programs for work that won't work on mac but besides that I find it painful even starting up, "Windows would like to install updates, feck off windows, switches back to mac".

120_Minutes

Hmmm interesting. maybe i'll just use the one os so.

taylorconor95

Parallels desktop is the way to go.. It even lets you download windows files like .exe on your mac, open them (on your mac) and then it switches to the windows window. Also, you can drag and drop files between OSX and Windows

drunkmonkey

You could also set up virtual box if you want to use different operating systems on your mac like Andorid:)
You can also set up a local web server for dev on osx with a program like mamp.