My experience with Parallels has been good, particularly for using guest applications for short periods or for testing new versions of operating systems and/or products. The biggest win is that you can share files easily between your Mac and any guest operating system. You can also jump between the two as needed. For some applications, and this is where you might seen an issue, graphical applications don't feel as quick as when running natively. There's nothing really wrong, but it feels sluggish, as though I was running on an old system. Bootcamp, by comparison, gives crisp performance. The downside, of course, is that you need to reboot. I'd give a slight tip to Parallels, but it'll depend on your feelings about performance. You might try the open source VirtualBox ( https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) for Mac to see what Windows on a virtual machine is like on your Mac. kh --- Karl A. Hakkarainen 508 829 5825 Queen Lake Consulting www.queenlake.com Twitter:RoasterBoy <https://twitter.com/#%21/RoasterBoy> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:01 PM, <donna at blazey.com> wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > Hi everyone, > > I have a mac and will be using a presentation program that is only for > Windows. I'll be using this on a daily basis. Does anyone have experience > with Apple Bootcamp vs Windows Parallel? I thought of getting a PC laptop, > maybe even a used one, but I have everything mac. > > Thanks, > Donna Blazey > > Bootcamp http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/ > Windows Parallel (http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/resources/) > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20130116/16112dc0/attachment-0001.html