What Will Run Better On My Intel Based Mac: Desktop Parallels Or Boot Camp? Any Major Problems With Both Os?
Submitted by admin on September 24, 2009 – 1:58 am2 Comments
This weekend I was thinking of purchasing either Boot Camp or Desktop Parallels, so I can put Windows XP on my Intel Based Mac OS 10.4. Just wondering if anyone has came across any limitations with XP running on a Mac. Also, do you need special security software for the PC side of things, because XP is running on a Mac? Thanx for all your help!
Why don’t you just buy a PC if you’re so interested in Windows? Maybe it’s because you’re another one of those mac users who absolutely have no clue to what they’re doing. What’s wrong, is OS X not exactly what you wanted? There’s a reason why you can have Windows on it, it’s because OS X isn’t good enough. I mean any smart mac users knows that running OS X is the reason why you buy a mac. Apple is so greedy, that they’ll only sell OS X on macs, just so they can get a profit from selling software, and hardware at the same time. Good luck with using either of those apps.
BTW: I’ve heard that Parallels is better than Boot Camp. If Apple is so perfect, why can’t their Boot Camp out class a competitors? Probaly because they’re not so perfect as you thought.
I’ve tried both and I think that each one favors a particular usage pattern. I finally got rid of my Boot Camp partition because I use Windows pretty lightly on my MacBook, and only want to do small things with it and immediately switch back to Mac OS (or Linux, which I also use with Parallels). Parallels uses what’s called Hypervisor technology, so things often run at pretty close to native speed, but then again I’ve never really pushed it very hard, since I have a desktop running Windows.
If you plan to use Windows for long periods and don’t feel the need to switch back and forth very often, then Boot Camp might be a good option for you. However, switching between the two and in particular exchanging data between the MacOS and Windows partitions can get complicated.