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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Windows 8.1 on Mac
Date: 23 Mar 2015 21:47:44 GMT
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On 2015-03-23, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2015-03-23 16:14, Your Name wrote:
>> In article <agisaak.spamblock-618E23.07400223032015@shawnews>, Ymir
>> <agisaak.spamblock@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've read various online reviews, but I thought I'd also ask here
>>> whether anyone has opinions on the relative strengths of Parallels and
>>> VMFusion for Virtualizing windows (and linux) on a Mac.
>>>
>>> This is for someone who would be using windows fairly infrequently, and
>>> isn't particularly concerned about gaming.
>>
>> Realistically there's little difference between the two and it simply
>> comes down to being a matter of opinion. They tend to leap frog each
>> other with every update - one becoming marginally faster / better until
>> the other updates.
>>
>> As well as those two, there are a couple of freeware / shareware
>> options, but they are less polished and more difficult to set-up for a
>> novice user.
>>
>> Depending on what you using Windoze for, there's also Apple's Boot Camp
>> which comes free with the Mac, but does require a reboot to swap
>> between using OS X or Windoze (either at full speed), whereas
>> virtualisation allows you to use both at once (at a reduced speed).
>
> The difference in speed between Windows on metal or under VM isn't worth 
> mention for most tasks.  Esp. considering how easy it is to drag files 
> OS to OS, copy/paste, and so on between the two.

Yep. That's my experience as well. For anything but really demanding 3D
acceleration and related things, VM performance is not different than
running the guest OS natively. And not having to reboot is a huge
benefit.

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