Heat and performance - Bootcamp VS Virtual Machine

[oldguru]

Win7 on MBP 2012, 256 SSD, 16G memory

Questions:
1. Which will be heater ? Bootcamp or Parallels/VMWare?
2. What is the performance gap between virtual machine with bootcamp?
3. What's the battery life difference?

 

[Hirakata]

Win7 on MBP 2012, 256 SSD, 16G memory

Questions:
1. Which will be heater ? Bootcamp or Parallels/VMWare?
2. What is the performance gap between virtual machine with bootcamp?
3. What's the battery life difference?

1. Parallels/VMWare will run hotter since you're running 2 OSs.
2. Bootcamp will run faster since it will run Windows 7 natively.
3. Parallels/VMWare will drain the battery quicker since you're running 2 OSs.

 

[jonnymo5]

I think you want the MacBook Pro forum.

 

[oldguru]

I think you want the MacBook Pro forum.

You are correct, I posted to wrong forum...