![]() I use it for those times when I need to pop into Windows to do a task and don’t feel like rebooting my Mac. Parallels is GREAT for the casual user or the user that isn’t running demanding apps. So you won’t have as much RAM available to either environment and you may not be able to take full advantage of your graphics card/3D graphics acceleration, Open GL, etc. When you run Windows under Parallels or VMware, you’re sharing resources with the Mac OS that’s ALWAYS running in the background. Although I love the sheer convenience of Parallels, I love the horse power of Boot Camp. ![]() It’s like running Windows apps in the Mac OS without seeing the Windows “window”. So why Boot Camp? Parallels actually offers several modes of running Windows right along side your Mac OS including the ability to have it seamlessly integrate right into your Mac environment so that when you run Windows apps they show up in your Mac dock. With Parallels or VMware there’s also no need to reboot! Windows (or whatever OS you’re running) just runs in a Window right along side your Mac OS. You would just have a Windows “image” that’s a file on your drive. It’s true, with virtualization apps like Parallels, you don’t need to partition your drive. I also have a free little utility for Windows called Apple Mouse that lets you do a right click by holding down the Control button and tapping the trackpad button. Usually when I’m in Windows via Boot Camp I’m doing a demo and I’d be using a mouse or tablet anyway. This is one of the potential gotchas of NOT starting from scratch. This is no biggie and may have something to do with the OLD Boot Camp drivers that were already present. I went into the Boot Camp control panel and verified the settings were correct, it’s just not working. However, two finger scrolling works, go figure. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers and it’s just not working. ![]() For example, I should be able to put two fingers on the trackpad and click for a right click. Although my Trackpad works, it doesn’t have all of the functionality. I was stunned by how little I had to do afterwards. I picked the third option and it installed everything necessary to allow Windows to take advantage of the hardware built-in to the MacBook Pro. This DVD is a dual format DVD, so when I inserted it, it did an Autorun and fired up the main menu allowing me to “Remote install Mac OS X on a MacBook Air”, “Install the CD/DVD Sharing app” for a MacBook Air, or install the Boot Camp Drivers. ![]() Now instead of making you burn a CD, Apple includes these drivers on your Mac Installation DVD. The next thing I knew I had to do was to update/install the drivers for all the things on the MacBook Pro such as the trackpad, iSight camera, graphics card drivers, Airport wireless, etc. I was also being prompted to reactivate Windows (more on that in a minute). Once that was done, I saw my familiar Windows XP desktop. Windows had to do some drive checking/repairing and I just let it do its thing. Fingers crossed, I rebooted my MacBook Pro, holding down the Option Key and there it was. When I returned the restore was complete (I was gone for less than an hour, but I didn’t time the restore from start to finish). I ran the restore of the Windows XP image and figured it would take a while so I went out and ran an errand. Next I plugged in my external Firewire drive containing my Winclone backup image and then I fired up Winclone on my new Mac.
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