Oschły Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 Hi! My main OS is macOS, but I have things, which I can do only on Windows (Some lite weight projects and games like Battlefield 4, Heroes 3 or Gothic 3). Is it worth to having dual boot Windows and get smaller disk for macOS (I have small ssd for 2 OSes) or I should try Parallels Desktop? How worse is performance than normal booted OS? My specs: CPU: i5-4670 (will change to 4790) GPU: GTX 750 Ti (will change for new Vega) RAM: 8 GB DDR3 (will add 32GB) Disk: Goodram Iridium Pro 240GB. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/326737-dual-boot-or-use-parallels/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 IMHO it's better with SOs in its own separate SSDs. I didn't never played games in VMs, so I can't give you a proper answer about this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/326737-dual-boot-or-use-parallels/#findComment-2488585 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XanthraX Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Unfortunately, Parallels does not boot Windows installed on a separate drive, from the version 11. But VMWare Fusion can. It will recognize the windows installation as BootCamp and will boot it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/326737-dual-boot-or-use-parallels/#findComment-2493050 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macinsane Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Mine does. Running BootCamp as usual. @Oschły BTW: Some games are so badly ported that they in fact run at similar speeds in Parallels, e.g. Metro. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/326737-dual-boot-or-use-parallels/#findComment-2493115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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