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#1
October 24th, 2006, 10:53 AM
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| Virtual pc or boot camp ? Which one is better to use ?  |
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#2
October 24th, 2006, 11:22 AM
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| If you don't care about gaming or anything super intensive, use Parallels Desktop so that you can run Windows concurrently (and much faster than VirtualPC) on Mac OS X. If you don't mind dual-booting and want as much speed as possible to play the WIndows-only games out there, use Boot Camp to create the drivers disc and the partition and install Windows. Just remember that Boot Camp is still in beta, so make sure you back up your files.
__________________ • Apple iMac G5 17" (2 GHz G5) - Mac OS X 10.4.11 • Apple Macintosh Quadra 650 (33 MHz MC68040) - Mac OS 8.1 • Apple PowerBook Duo 230 (33 MHz MC68030) - System 7.1 • "JHVH-1" (2 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2400+) - Slackware 12.1 • "Kidbuntu" (2.8 GHz Celeron D 335) - Ubuntu 8.04 |
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#3
October 24th, 2006, 12:48 PM
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| Virtual PC and Boot Camp are mutually-exclusive. VPC runs only on Macs based on the PPC. Boot Camp can be setup only on Macs based on Intel processors. The Intel Mac counterpart to VPC is Parallels Workstation. It allows you run install and run [in a virtual environment hosted by MacOS X] at near-native speeds virtually every Intel-compatible OS in the last decade. Boot Camp allows you to run your Mac as a Windows XP SP2 computer. |
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#4
October 24th, 2006, 08:13 PM
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| the only things i need to run is quickbooks and my garmin software. |
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#5
October 25th, 2006, 03:36 AM
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| what mac do you have? G3/G4/G5 use Virtual PC, anything newer, use Parallels, or Boot Camp.
__________________ Dual 1.8GHz G5 2GB, 1TB, Radeon 9600XT 128MB, 10.5 20" Apple Cinema Display + Dell 2005FPW 20" dual-head iBook G3 700MHz 640MB, 40GB, Rage128 16MB, 10.4, dying battery |
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#6
October 25th, 2006, 03:42 AM
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| Garmin devices, however, are known to be problematic on some solutions. They should run on GuestPC (for PowerPC Macs) and BootCamp (intel Macs), but I'm not sure about the others. Won't run in Parallels (intel Macs) AFAIK.
__________________ MacBook Air 13" 1.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.5.4 MacBook 13" 1.83 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.5.4 Hackintosh Core2Duo 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.5.4 iPhone 3G 16 GB (v2), AppleTV 1G 40 GB (v2) Mac user since 1987, Apple Product Professional 2007, 2008. |
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#7
October 25th, 2006, 07:40 PM
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| i have a new imac. |
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#8
October 25th, 2006, 09:36 PM
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| Quote:
__________________ Power to Burn. At speeds of up to 733MHz, The most powerful Mac in history burns CDs, burns DVDs, and burns Pentiums - apple website, oct 4, 1999. advertisement for the powermac g4 |
