boot camp partition

[Ollie N]

how much should i partition for boot camp. i'm going to install widows xp and i have 52.42 gb left on my hard drive. how much should i partioion?

 

[MarkMS]

What will you be using Boot Camp for? Games? Windows only apps?

 

[Ollie N]

What will you be using Boot Camp for? Games? Windows only apps?

windows only games

 

[aluminumapple]

windows only games

id suggest 45+gb since each game is about 4~12 gb now a days + 3~4Gb for your windows xp.

 

[daedra21]

boot camp

is it recomended to use boot camp to run lotro on mac os x 10.5.5?

 

[smartalic34]

I would account for at least 5GB for windows itself... and then, what, like 2 GB or so per game you plan on installing? then maybe a few gigs added on to that for disk file swapping...

games take up a varying amount of space, so 2 GB may not be a proper estimate per game.

EDIT: I wouldnt make the boot camp partition more than 42GB, because then you'll be left with less than 10GB for Mac OS X, and may start seeing performance decreases soon thereafter.

 

[Ollie N]

my games are small

I would account for at least 5GB for windows itself... and then, what, like 2 GB or so per game you plan on installing? then maybe a few gigs added on to that for disk file swapping...

games take up a varying amount of space, so 2 GB may not be a proper estimate per game.

EDIT: I wouldnt make the boot camp partition more than 42GB, because then you'll be left with less than 10GB for Mac OS X, and may start seeing performance decreases soon thereafter.

my games only take up a few mb

 

[aluminumapple]

btw next time dont put a ! sign on a post like this. its not important much as a sideline.