Apppppple1 wrote:
I do know about bootcamp but some people say it makes your mac slow.
What happens is when Apple's BootCamp is used on hard drives, it carves a BootCamp partition from the bottom area of the drive up until it hits OS X data (or to the size required).
Hard drives performance suffer the worst read/write performance on the areas closer to the inner spindle, where the sectors are shorter and the heads have to repositition more often, this does have a result of making one's Windows experience appear slow.
It also occurs if OS X is installed on that second partition.
The way to avoid this would be to backup, erase the entire drive and make the MacintoshHD partition the smallest possible it will allow + small room for updates, then install OS X into it and run it, create the BootCamp parititon to take the remaining space of the boot drive, then install Windows. This will have the result of putting Windows on the faster part of the drive as possible. It would also negate OS X to being unused, just for updates only. OS x updates are needed for the firmware, and for backing up Windows with WinClone 3, so OS X can't be eliminated.
I currently do music production and need Windows to run a software (Cubase)
What you will have to do is determine if Cubase is very hardware performance dependent or not because Windows in BootCamp gives full hardware performance with CPU, RAM and graphics.
If it's not super hardware performance dependent, you may want to run Windows in a window in OS X using virtual machine software instead.
Windows in BootCamp or Virtual Machine?
Install Windows or Linux into VirtualBox
Commerial virtual machine software (VMFusion and Parallels) will pretty much require it and OS X be upgraded when Apple releases a new OS X verison every year, which in turn costs more money and slows down your hardware faster, creates a faster hardware turnover cycle.
Free VirtualBox vm software gets updated for older OS X versions, thus you can choose to remain on a older OS X version and their matching OS X performance without much of a slowdown issues.
If you want to keep your Mac fast, there is some things to avoid.
Why is my computer slow?
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents