View Single Post
Old 12-16-2009, 01:57 PM   #76
bazookajoe
...
 
bazookajoe's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
First Name: david
Location: SoCal
Posts: 639
Trading: (72)
bazookajoe has disabled reputation
Default Re: Buying a new laptop- Apple?

Quote:
Originally Posted by gvarsity View Post
As long as you are not doing anything taking significant advantage of the onboard video processing primarily new graphically intensive games you can run Windows in an emulator like Vmware Fusion or Parallels and have the best of both worlds simultaneously without having to boot into bootcamp. Many of the games you can run on boot camp. Essentially anything but the most high end games. You can also run a linux virtual machine on either of the emulators as well...
Agreed. Emulators have the convenience of access without rebooting - in my case I need to run AutoCad and Solidworks so I prefer the performance of Windows 7 in Bootcamp.
bazookajoe is offline   Reply With Quote