query....

[fleckzuerst]

i have a macbook pro, processor intel core 2 duo 3.09 ghz, 4GB RAM, i need to work with "Etabs", for design and calculating reinforced concrete structures and runs on windows and the requirements are

Processor:
Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 X2, or better
Memory:
for 4 GB or more 64-bit systems

The question is this... A friend say "if i use boot or parallels the laptop will work with half of his ram capacity". which program is better for this application? should I sell my mac and buy a dell? upload your RAM to 8GB?

 

[old-wiz]

run windows under bootcamp then there's no osx overhead.

 

[fleckzuerst]

run windows under bootcamp then there's no osx overhead.

thank you, i will try to run under bootcamp, if i use boot how is the performance? can i get a better speed under boot than parallels?

 

[old-wiz]

Bootcamp will always be faster than Parallels/VM ware since Windows is the only thing running. With Parallels and the like you are running Windows as an virtual machine within Parallels over OSx. There is a fair amount of overhead.