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SpaceJello

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Dec 2, 2006
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Never thought I would come to this day after running away from Windowsland. There is a few programs that unfortunutely don't have a mac counterpart, i am curious how much space i should alot for bootcamp/parallels? I am only running very small apps, no where near a gig on windows. If I am not using windows much, would it be better to use parallels?
 

72930

Retired
May 16, 2006
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About 5-6GB for bootcamp....parallels has an option to expand the more you use it...
 

timswim78

macrumors 6502a
Feb 8, 2006
696
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Baltimore, MD
Never thought I would come to this day after running away from Windowsland. There is a few programs that unfortunutely don't have a mac counterpart, i am curious how much space i should alot for bootcamp/parallels? I am only running very small apps, no where near a gig on windows. If I am not using windows much, would it be better to use parallels?

If you are doing small stuff, I'd suggest running Parallels. Just think about it, do you want to wait for your computer to shut down and reboot every time that you want to run a piece of Windows software?


If you go with Boot Camp, I wouldn't suggest less than 10GB for Windows XP, preferably 15GB.
 

trainguy77

macrumors 68040
Nov 13, 2003
3,567
1
Depends what your doing I have 60 gb for it....too bad it won't boot....:( But if your just doing a couple apps 10gb should be fine. But 15 gb would be better
 
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