optimusp Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 Hi everyone, So my new system hasn't arrived yet, but it should be here shortly. It'll be a Core 2 duo E6550 OC'ed to ~3.2ghz with 4 gigs of ram, 7600gt video, and usb sound card. I'm wondering if I should go through the hassle of configuring my system to dual boot OSX and Vista, or if I should just stick with Parallels. Here's what I'll need to use vista for: - School work which requires the use of Access 2007 - Compiling some cross-platform opengl code - Some minor audio work (Some virtual instruments are only available for windows) What do you guys think? Am I going to see a significant drop in performance if I use parallels? Will I get video hardware acceleration? Do usb devices work as usual within parallels? Thanks for the help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65844-dual-boot-vs-parallels/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonshadow Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Dual boot, THEN, use the new VmWare Fusion while on the mac That way you can have full mac, full windows, and then use fusion if all you need to do is some little things.\ My dad has fusion on his real iMac, and windows is as fast as in real bootup. Exept for 3d games, fusion can only use DX8. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65844-dual-boot-vs-parallels/#findComment-478449 Share on other sites More sharing options...
garybeard333 Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 If u want and easy way to "Dual boot" then the simplest option is to stick a couple of drives in removable caddies and stick MAC OSX on one and whatever other os u want on the other. Then if u wanna swap OS all u need to do is swap the HDDS around (making sure the machine is shut down first of course). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65844-dual-boot-vs-parallels/#findComment-478545 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quaestor Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 If u want and easy way to "Dual boot" then the simplest option is to stick a couple of drives in removable caddies and stick MAC OSX on one and whatever other os u want on the other. Then if u wanna swap OS all u need to do is swap the HDDS around (making sure the machine is shut down first of course). Or (to take this even further off-topic) do what I do; XP on 1 drive, TIger on a separate drive; hit 'F8' during post to get *bios* boot menu, pick what you want to boot... (ps this is *not* the bios boot-order set-up screen) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65844-dual-boot-vs-parallels/#findComment-497412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob356 Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 If you want to use paralells look here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=41085 I don't know about USB devices, but in Paralells 3.0 they just added video accleceration. Performance is almost equal to that of not virtulasied. plus coherence is a nice bonus in paralells. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65844-dual-boot-vs-parallels/#findComment-497594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 I actually have 2 separate systems on my hack (4 drives devoted to windows and 4 to osx, each in their own backplane that can be turned on or off depending on which system I want to boot). But I still use Parallels in OSX. I've installed virtual drives with Daemon Tools within Parallels to run certain programs I use regularly that can only be run off the cd-rom. I run Office 2007 from parallels too and although it's not as responsive as it is natively in windows, it's still pretty darned quick. I also use parallels for all those little apps that I can't seem to find adequate replacements for in OSX...there's about 40 of them. I don't run editing suites on parallels (never tried) because I have the retail version for osx natively. I've been extremely pleased with parallels so far. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65844-dual-boot-vs-parallels/#findComment-497679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
optimusp Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 I have xp on one drive, and 10.4.10 on another. I've found that using parallels is sufficient for my needs. Basically, when I need to compile so cross-platform code, I'll pop into parallels really quick - do my dirty work, then get out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65844-dual-boot-vs-parallels/#findComment-502176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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