Alternative to Boot Camp?

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Alternative to Boot Camp?

What are the alternatives to Boot Camp? It's not acceptable to have to reboot to switch to a Windoze app.

The only thing I need to run in Windoze is AutoCAD.

15" MacBook Pro, 4GB, 2.4Ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Apr 24, 2008 9:24 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 24, 2008 9:56 AM in response to ggorman

http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/

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Erikkup

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Apr 24, 2008 2:09 PM in response to Templeton Peck

The difference is that Boot Camp is not a virtualized environment like Parallels or Fusion, i.e. those applications share the processor and memory with OS X. If you are running Vista then it is going to be slower. But if you need really quick switching over performance then one of those applications are best.

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artistjoh

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Apr 25, 2008 9:55 AM in response to ggorman

Fusion and Parallels work well for all "light" applications such as word processing, email etc. Fusion has the aditional advantage of supporting other OS than Windows (I have Ubuntu as well as XP in Fusion)

For "heavy" usage applications especially games and some graphics programs working natively in Boot Camp is far superior to either Parallels or Fusion.

Boot Camp always will run Windows faster than Parallels or Fusion can.

I am very pleased with Fusion generally but need to go into Boot Camp as well.

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