QOTD: Boot Camp, Parallels Or Fusion?

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4:09PM October 8, 2009 | Nick Broughall

I’m sitting here with my MacBook Pro and a copy of Windows 7, wanting to combine the two into the ultimate blogging machine. But how to do it?

I could go the cheap option of Boot Camp, which only lets me boot one OS at a time, and is free. Or I could spring for a copy of Parallels or VMWare Fusion to do the whole virtual machine thing.

So the question today is which should I choose? Either because you want to know what the process is like, or because you recommend the solution – either one is fine by me.


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  • Craig

    October 8, 2009 at 11:37 PM

    Throw the copy of windows in the bin. Putting windows on a mac defeats the purpose of having brought it in the first place.

  • HelloDave

    October 9, 2009 at 1:11 PM

    VMware.
    I ran Parallels for ages and it destroyed 3 of my bootcamp partitions. It would work fine thru Parallels, but it wouldnt boot directly into windows no more, so no gaming…..
    VMware has been hassle free.

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