![]() Personally I have never used Boot Camp to reboot into Windows. The graphics can be jacked all the way up, and there's no laggy latency-that's pretty incredible, considering that you'd expect lag if it was going through OS X's Quartz compositor, on top of the Windows 7 window compositor. I've been a virtualized-gaming skeptic, but the results with this new version are what every delusional Mac gamer was hoping was achievable in the days of VirtualPC on the PowerPC. Parallels has had their eye on Windows 3D gaming from the start and, with this release, they've finally converted me. The latest version of Parallels Desktop is said to be so good that even games run about as fast as booting into Windows natively. I have run Windows 7 in both VirtualBox and Parallels Desktop, and they did not crash even when things got slow. So if you plan to run Windows in virtualization frequently, I would significantly upgrade the amount of installed RAM.Īs far as general stability, virtualization on the Mac is pretty mature these days and I have not encountered crashes very often. The only Windows performance problems that you should encounter is if the apps you have open in Windows or on the Mac or both need more CPU or RAM than is available, since in this option you run two major operating systems at the same time on one machine. If you install Windows 7 into virtual machine software running in Mac OS X, and there is sufficient RAM and disk space for both the Windows 7 and Mac OS X system requirements put together, then there should not be a noticeable performance problem. If you install Windows 7 on a separate partition and have Boot Camp reboot into Windows only, the experience should be exactly the same as on a PC because the only OS running on the machine is Windows. The answer is different depending on how you are running Windows on your Mac. (The copy of Windows that came with your old PC probably would be a non-transferrable "OEM" copy.) Also, unless you were planning on running other Windows programs, the cost of a new copy of Windows plus a virtualization program would probably be greater than the cost of purchasing a Mac version of Office. Negatives: You'd be using a lot of disk space and memory just to run a program that's already available in a native version for the Macintosh. I believe 2 GB might be a bit tight for running Windows 7 and Mac OS X and applications at the same time. Hopefully you custom-ordered 4 GB of RAM for that MacBook Air. Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion are the two most popular I believe they are both under $100. You'd need a copy of Windows, and a virtualization program. Let's assume I can get windows 7 installed on my new Mac, then can I load my windows version of microsoft office on it, and would it run? Is there any negatives in doing so, such as: slowing down the system, causing it to crash, etc.?įinally, I know someone may say why I just don't stick with PC - I have always been curious about using Mac, and I guess now is the time to explore. Can this be done? Can you please briefly go through what software I need to get to achieve that, and any important steps?Ģ. I have seen some Youtube video in which someone can load Windows 7 and can toggle between both O.S. I've just got myself a new Macbook Air, with 128GB SSD.ġ. I have never used a Mac before - been a PC user all my life. You'll be far happier with the performance I think. If office is all you need Windows for, then buy the office version for Mac OS X. ![]() If you have 2GB of ram, you will have to split that between Mac OS X and Windows, both will run with 1GB each, but not optimal to say the least. Running a VM is running 2 computer operating systems on one piece of hardware, meaning you will be splitting your resources between the two. To switch instantly between the two, you would need to be running a virtual machine (Parallels, VMWare, VirtualBox). ![]()
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