Re: Parallels or BootCamp? - - - BootCamp or Parallels?

In article <1183719956.924520.139400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ric <publicmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm going to regret this, I'm sure, but here goes.

I admire your adventurous spirit, I will be gentle.



What do you want to do with your machine?

Everything! - ...but of course that is not feasible.



I'm presuming you want to run Windows.

Well, more like _have_ to, I do not want to.



Personally, I love Parallels.

Same here, but like you mentioned, sometimes BootCamp has to be used for
performance reasons.



Personally, I love Parallels. Latest version 3 supports
3D hardware acceleration, USB 2.0, and can *boot off an
existing bootcamp Windows partition*

Not off a Vista BootCamp partition, check it out, I did.

Apparently $MS is not yet willing to allow it, for Vista.

Windows XP runs on a combination Parallels/BootCamp setup, though.



There's a free trial available that'll cost you nothing to try,
anyway. Have a look.

No need to, I already have extensive experience with Parallels, like it
very much.



With RAM being so cheap these days the overhead of OS X and
another OS running side by side isn't really a factor.

It is a big factor for me, from the performance standpoint, which is why
I am forced to use BootCamp at times.

The Vista program "Dragon NaturallySpeaking Pro 9.5" was showing
definite stress of being 'pushed' when running in Parallels.

(on MacBook Pro, 2GB ram)



By contrast, it showed no signs of being pushed in BootCamp.

This situation will be aggravated when I get the $1,200 medical version
of Dragon shortly, so that limits me to using BootCamp, unfortunately.


No way in heck am I going to throw Dragon on real PC hardware, I would
not wish that fate on any application.

(although I did briefly run the cheapy $900 version of Dragon on a
modern ASUS laptop, just to satisfy myself that Dragon runs better on a
Mac than it does on a PC)

Mark-
.

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