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VMware or Boot Camp?
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Hello guys,
I'll be receiving a MacBook with 1GB of RAM and 120GB of hdd next week and I'm wondering wether I should go with VMware or Boot Camp. I'll be programming on Visual Basic, PHP and ASP for the next six months.
My guts are telling me to go with Boot Camp, but I want to listen to your opinions.
Thanks in advanced,
Hg+
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First, get more RAM. 1 GB is just not going to cut it. A bigger hard disk wouldn't hurt either.
Second, use both. Create a Boot Camp partition for booting straight into Windows and use Fusion (or Parallels) to virtualize the Boot Camp partition while in OS X.
Steve
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I will be getting more RAM in the near future, but I think the hdd is ok.
Aren't there driver issues between the virtualization softwares and Boot Camp?
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With 1GB RAM, Boot Camp no question.
But you should get more RAM and use both.
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Originally Posted by Hg2491
I will be getting more RAM in the near future, but I think the hdd is ok.
Aren't there driver issues between the virtualization softwares and Boot Camp?
What issues are you referring to? Both virtualization products specifically include the ability to use a BC partition for the VM as a feature. I've never had any problems.
Steve
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I have read around here that Parallel's / VMware's drivers sometimes corrups Boot Camp drivers. Is this false?
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Originally Posted by Hg2491
I have read around here that Parallel's / VMware's drivers sometimes corrups Boot Camp drivers. Is this false?
Completely false. It works fine.
Steve
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Originally Posted by ibook_steve
Completely false. It works fine.
Steve
Awesome then
Thanks for the help,
Hg+
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I've only got 1.5GB RAM and use BootCamp to run Windows XP SP3 to play PES2009 and it works fine because it's native.
If you want to run games, I guess BootCamp is better to take full advantage of your hardware's performance.
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