• After more than 15 years covering everything Apple, it’s with a heavy heart we announce that we will no longer be publishing new content on iMore and the iMore forums will be closing as of November 1st, 2024.

Boot Camp or Virtual Machine?

Just_Me_D

Ambassador Team Leader, Senior Moderator
Moderator
Jan 8, 2012
60,410
882
113
Visit site
I don't know what 'most' prefer, but many use Boot Camp and many others use Parallels. Personally, I used Boot Camp years back because it was built-in and simple to use.
 

cardfan

Well-known member
Oct 26, 2004
2,234
57
48
Visit site
Bootcamp is more performance. VM is more convenience. You have to decide what you want. Most people I would think do bootcamp because that's the built in option. I do VM because the whole point of a Macbook is to use OS X. This adds ability to run windows for necessary things without giving that up.
 

MarkY3130

Well-known member
Jun 8, 2014
79
0
0
Visit site
I use a PC for work and a Mac for fun. (Mostly because I bought a MacBook for work and found I would need to find a workaround to run the necessary programs. So I just retired it to home use. Tried parallels and it was too sluggish and boot camp wasn't what I wanted.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 

6PlusManiac

Member
Jul 15, 2015
15
0
0
Visit site
I personally only use VMWare Fusion. I only run basic programs or run OS's that aren't that demanding like different Ubuntu distributions. I still haven't managed to use all the 8GB of RAM I have in my MBP while having a virtual machine running and allotting it 4GB of RAM.
 

Lrover

Member
Nov 12, 2013
10
0
0
Visit site
Install VMWare instead of running Bootcamp!! Any of these VMWare clients (Fusion, parallels, etc.,) will allow you to run Windows, Red Hat, Linux, etc., side by side on your Mac screen, while on the other hand, running Windows in Bootcamp, you have to boot up your Mac to use either Windows or Mac OS!!