Boot camp vs parellel

Basically, Boot Camp performs slightly better, but you have to reboot your Mac to switch operating systems. The virtualization solutions like Parallels Desktop don't give you quite the same performance, but you don't have to reboot and can have multiple "containers" with different operating systems or configurations, back them up easily (they're just Mac files), and switch between them.

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Hi, I'm contemplating on using either boot camp or parallel to run my OEM window 7

Did you purchase an OEM version of Windows 7 or are you using a copy that came with a PC? A purchased OEM version is probably fine. Versions that come shipped with PCs are typically "locked" to that hardware and may not install on other machines.

Generally speaking if you need extremely high performance out of Windows (such as gaming), then use Boot Camp.

If your use is with apps that are not Graphics intensive, and do not need to use every last bit of RAM, then go with one of the Virtualization products (VMware Fusion, Parallels, VirtualBox).

NOTE: Virtualization means sharing your RAM while Windows is running in a virtual machine, so make sure you have sufficient RAM. For example, you may want to give 2GB to Windows, and at least 2GB to Mac OS X, so you would want at least 4GB of RAM in your Mac (8GB would be better, and if your Mac can accept that much, not all that expensive an option).

And of course, when not running Windows in a virtual machine, all that RAM is available for the Mac OS X apps.

Something of note in respect to Parallels, you

can have your cake and eat it too, so to speak.

You can install Windows via Bootcamp. This

allows you to boot into Windows and run at

the best that the hardware can support. You can

also install Parallels as well because it has the

capability of using the Windows installation

in a virtual machine. You can then then boot OSX

and then open Windows into a virtual machine.

You then have the choice:

Run Windows in Bootcamp when you need all

the power available on you computer or run

in Parallels along side OSX when the PC apps are

less demanding.