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Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / November 2007Windows on a Mac Question...
Hello all, I just took the plunge and orderd a shiney new iMac 20" 2.4gig with 2gig ram and 550gig hard drive. My question is this: Which of the following is better to use: BootCamp, Parallels, or VMWare's Fusion? I want to run Windows along with OS X. I do shareware development. Thanks in advance, Noble In article <c2254709-e63a-4de4-8664-d5c995040389@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, > I just took the plunge and orderd a shiney new iMac 20" 2.4gig with > 2gig ram and 550gig hard drive. My question is this: Which of the > following is better to use: BootCamp, Parallels, or VMWare's Fusion? > I want to run Windows along with OS X. I do shareware development. First, if you are new to Macs, welcome to the Macintosh community. We're glad to have you. : ) I'm sure you'll love the Mac experience. This is the comp.sys.mac.programmer.help news group, which is for discussion of software development on Macs. A more appropriate news group for your question would be comp.sys.mac.system. I went ahead and set the followup-to header to that news group for you. Also, you should know this type of question has been asked by others many times in the past in comp.sys.mac.system. If I were you, I'd use Google Groups search facility to search in comp.sys.mac.system for "Boot Camp Parallels Fusion" to see what folks have already had to say about it. You'll no doubt find lots of useful information!  SignatureNote: Please send all responses to the relevant news group. If you must contact me through e-mail, let me know when you send email to this address so that your email doesn't get eaten by my SPAM filter. JR In article <c2254709-e63a-4de4-8664-d5c995040389@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, > Hello all, > > I just took the plunge and orderd a shiney new iMac 20" 2.4gig with > 2gig ram and 550gig hard drive. My question is this: Which of the > following is better to use: BootCamp, Parallels, or VMWare's Fusion? > I want to run Windows along with OS X. I do shareware development. The cleanest way to run Windows on a Mac is via BootCamp, which has the additional advantage of being free. It's got the large disadvantage of requiring a reboot and thus no chance of live data sharing between the Windows and Mac environments. But if you're doing it for development purposes, it's certainly the closest you'll get to a commodity PC setup which is a boon for testing and validation. > But if you're doing it for development > purposes, [BootCamp is] certainly the closest you'll get to a commodity > PC setup which is a boon for testing and validation. You're quite right, but for most development - pretty much anything but device drivers - a virtualized XP running in Parallels or VMWare is close enough. And if you're using something like Cocotron to cross-compile your Windows app from within Xcode, you won't need Windows for much more than q/a the Windows binary anyway. I think BootCamp's primary audience is gamers for whom the 90% of native speed offered by Parallels or VMWare isn't good enough. sherm-- SignatureWV News, Blogging, and Discussion: http://wv-www.com Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net > I think BootCamp's primary audience is gamers for whom the 90% of native > speed offered by Parallels or VMWare isn't good enough. I'm inclined to agree. For Dev work if you need a windows tool VMWare Fusion or Parallels are more than enough. If you want to play games on a mac, I'd go with Bootcamp. You'll find that Mac Pros and the current iMacs make Windows XP (and probably vista) run stupid-fast... I mean it's amazing... It makes anying from Dell or Compaq/HP look like it's built on hardware from 5 or 10 years ago, IMNHO. Signature-- Remove "invalid domain" to reply Thank you all for your posts and comments. Sorry I posted to the wrong group. I'll be more careful in the future. This is not my first Mac experience. I already own a MacMini and love it so this is a natural progression for me. Right now I do programming in REALbasic but am going to try and move towards Cocoa and Objective-C. I am sure I will have questions for you folks. Thanks again. Noble > Thank you all for your posts and comments. Sorry I posted to the wrong > group. I'll be more careful in the future. No need for that: this was the perfect group to ask your question. Never take advise from 'helpful' pirates. patrick |
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