Does bootcamp effect my Mac's performance?

Minicooper7 wrote:

I want to run bootcamp but i dont know if it will effect battery life and speed. I have a 15 in macbook pro with the 2.2ghz quad core intel i7 and 4gb of ram. any advice?

Bootcamp creates a seperate space on the storage drive called a partition which acts just like another drive, but is on the same piece of hardware.

Once you install Windows 7 into Bootcamp, your Mac is basically a Windows PC like any other and gains full advantage of the hardware. OS X is not running or has any control what so ever.

For what your doing, you will need the full strenght of the hardware and Windows, Apple provides drivers for Windows to handle the battery and fans etc.

Read here and watch the video

https://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVfRQ0YIDUI&feature=related

Remmeber if your stuck booting, hold hte option key while rebooting and you'll have a selection to boot back into OS X and can change the Startup Disk in System Preferences.

Also Microsoft Security Essentials is free anti-malware for your Windows Bootcamp.

Also Winclone can be run from OS X and clone the Windows bootcamp to another drive for backup purposes, however likely you can't run off of it because Windows takes the hardware into the copy protection scheme.

Bootcamp does not affect your Macs performance when running OSX.