800gb is plenty but remember, you need to devide the hd so that both
Mac and Microsoft can reside on it.
Bootcamp is provided by apple and will be built into Leopard. The
other two programs are 3rd party programs. Bootcamp provides a way to
have two operating systems or more reside on the same computer and
makes them selectable at boot. The other two provide capabilities
allowing both or all three etc to run at the same time. The Virtual
software packages as they are called do have some issues which for
your purposes may or may ot outweigh their advantages. Bootcamp has
some disadvantages overcome by the virtual applications but has
disadvantages as well.
The virtual packages devide the ram on your computer into chunks in
order to run each os and its respective apps. Bootcamp dedicates the
entire ram set to which ever os is running at the time. The virtual
packages may not run all applications properly especially some
assistive technologies and have access issues as well. I have not
used them so cannot be specific about this but there are those who can
fill you in.
When using bootcamp, you need to decide whether to use fat32 or ntfs
for your windows partition. fat32 limits you to 32gb for that
partition and ntfs allows as much space as you want but you cannot
write to the ntfs partition from the Mac OS. I have not been able to
get sound recorder to work on my Mac using bootcamp running windows.
I hope that helps and that others will chime in.
On Oct 19, 2007, at 8:41 PM, Rob DeZonia wrote:
Could someone tell me what the differences are between fussion,
parallels i think it's called, and bootcamp? If one were to run
Windows in conjunction with Mac, how many gigs of space does xp take
up? If you only have a Mac Mini with an 80 gig hard drive you don't
want to junk it up with a big ol' windows install, that is why one
would switch, to get away from Windows right?
Rob
