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Is Bootcamp better than Virtual pc ?
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Oh, goodness me, very much so.
VirtualPC was absolutely terrible at what it did, even for a virtualization suite.
Because the OS is being virtualized, it cannot access the full potential of the hardware and would thus run very slowly. Boot Camp, on the other hand, runs Windows natively, giving it the same access to the hardware as OS X.
Current virtualization software, such as Parallels and VMware, do their jobs MUCH better than Virtual PC ever did, because they don't have to emulate an x86/x64 processor, among other reasons. In fact, for most purposes (other than games and other things graphically intense), either of these virtualization softwares would be perfectly suited to running Windows full time.
VirtualPC was absolutely terrible at what it did, even for a virtualization suite.
Because the OS is being virtualized, it cannot access the full potential of the hardware and would thus run very slowly. Boot Camp, on the other hand, runs Windows natively, giving it the same access to the hardware as OS X.
Current virtualization software, such as Parallels and VMware, do their jobs MUCH better than Virtual PC ever did, because they don't have to emulate an x86/x64 processor, among other reasons. In fact, for most purposes (other than games and other things graphically intense), either of these virtualization softwares would be perfectly suited to running Windows full time.
They're different things altogether. Boot camp simply lets you boot one operating system or the other (OS X or Windows). VirtualPC was a hackneyed attempt to create a Windows virtual machine running within Mac OS X.
BTW, what are you "upgrading" from? Odds are that you haven't been running VirtualPC on a modern Intel-based Mac, but you have to have an Intel-based Mac to run Windows via Bootcamp.
BTW, what are you "upgrading" from? Odds are that you haven't been running VirtualPC on a modern Intel-based Mac, but you have to have an Intel-based Mac to run Windows via Bootcamp.