Dear WAMUG'ers, Many thanks for all the information provided on Bootcamp and Parallels. I have passed the emails to my relative, and after due consideration and trying AutoCAD and a 3D apps on an intel-Mac, he has found no difference to the performance he was used to on his Win PC.
Glad to announce that he has order a Mac and apparently is looking forward to using it for his last year's studies. All the comments you provided were relevant and did help him to make the move to the Mac platform. I am grateful for your help. Sincerely, Philippe C. on 28/6/06 7:50 AM, michael campbell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Philippe, > Boot camp will ALWAYS be faster and it is as it is native, no > translation is done running the machine instructions, for CAD I > would suggest running bootcamp as you will need 3d performance which > is something that Parallels suffers from. Photoshop for PPC is > definitely slower on an intel mac as it has to use Rosetta, which is > translating the code. However he could use the windows version of > Photoshop under bootcamp. > Cheers > Mike > > On 28/06/2006,Wednesday, at 7:21 AM, Stephen Atherton wrote: > >> I haven't used the tweeks yet, but there is a tip to improve >> performance of Parallels Desktop by modifying the way Parallels >> caches - less memory and flushes the buffer cache better. >> >> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060622090404212 >> >> On 27/06/2006, at 11:14 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: >> >>> What if, the speed of each depends on the configuration. I suspect >>> that on a lower end intel Mac that Bootcamp will be faster, >>> because its only one system being run, not two. Parallels may be >>> faster if you have a faster computer with more RAM, although even >>> then, you would think that only running one system would be faster >>> than running two. Just a thought... >>> On 27/06/2006, at 8:06 PM, Robert Howells wrote: >>> >>>> Heh Dave, >>>> >>>> As I am on the side and looking on >>>> I do a fair bit of reading on Macintouch and the like. >>>>
