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hey guys John here one of the most popular questions that I get on here is in regards to running Windows on your Mac specifically parallels versus bootcamp what does what and how you install them so I'm going to do my best to try and answer those questions for you so first parallels which is what I have is not put out by Mac at all so software and what parallels does is it emulates hardware on a computer so what that means it kind of essentially tricks your computer into seeing almost like a sea drive and it lets you install an actual version of Windows so you're running a real version of Windows on a virtualized computer so they're both good and bad things to that running on a virtualized computer depending on how much RAM you give it to be a little bit laggy I've got about a gig of ram that I give it and it seems to be pretty fast it's not necessary to reboot with parallels you can run both at the same time as well meeting you can easily switch between OS 10 and windows and with parallels 3.0 you can actually drag files from one operating system to the next if you have a word document you created in Windows you can actually just drag it right over to your OS 10 desktop and automatically covert to your Mac version of word very cool and you can just shut it down right from windows no need to again restart or reboot your computer when it comes to games that's where things get a little bit tricky parallels claims that it supports three games I haven't tried it but I know people who have and it it runs doesn't run smoothly as a real Windows machine so my conclusion is what parallels is good for is anything non 3d intensive if you want to run Microsoft Office parallels is great if you want to run the dhobi Photoshop parallels is great if you're not playing games really parallels I think will be will be fine for you as long as you give it at least two gigabytes of RAM so that's parallels for you nice and easy I've enjoyed it for a couple months that I've had it it's a great great feature and it runs I think about $80.00 so it's reasonably affordable well on the other side of the spectrum is boot camp which is Mac or Apple's answer I guess to two parallels and it's currently in beta version it's a free download it will be included with Leopard and what boot camp is it actually makes your window your Intel based Mac machine a full fledged Windows computer so take advantage of absolutely everything anything you can do on a Windows computer you can do on the Mac to make that more clear it turns your Macintosh into a Windows computer and the way that works is you create a certain amount of hard drive space based on what you decide and it makes something called a partition and what that does is it allocates certain amount of space just for Windows so when you boot up your computer you hold down a key and you'll have an option as to whether or not you want to boot into OS 10 or Windows now you can't run both side-by-side like you can in parallels so once you choose Windows it'll load up windows XP or Vista so depending what you want and look and run just like a Windows machine it'll run 3d games just like o comparable Windows machine will it takes all your specs and turns it turns it windows I guess to make that a little more clear for people go to apple.com look at the specs for your computer whether it's a MacBook MacBook Pro whatever and where it says running OS 10 put Windows and not to spec to your computer right now so it's great it's great for games hardcore gamers and people that want to run strong 3d windows-based apps and when you want to get back to OS 10 you have to shutdown windows and actually we boot the computer and then select OS 10 again both are good options both offer different things I have not installed boot camp my own computer yet but I've played with play with it in stores and friend's house who have it and it works great it's flawless the drivers work on the new version drivers the built-in iSight camera just like any other webcam so then that's you know again that's that's free I hope this helped answer some of your questions that you guys have had he feel free to shoot in my way when you get through here and I guess the last side note when you install a boot camp I what you need to do is you go to apple.com and slash boot camp I believe and there are steps there that'll guide you through the installation process you created disco drivers and you actually install your version of Windows then start your driver disk so both are pretty easy to install and both sort of do the same thing with a little bit different specialization hope this helped clear things up for you guys feel free to ask some questions thank you guys for watching thank everybody for subscribing and I'm glad we were able to keep this active and hopefully answer everybody's questions so enjoy have a good afternoon evening or day or wherever you are and I'll talk to you guys soon bye guys