Hi Macaby
Installing BootCamp Allows The Mac To Be Dual Boot.
ie Startup Natively Into Either Mac OSX Or Windows(XP/Vista).
Running Windows In A BootCamp Partition Is Essentially Running A PC.
You Can Run ANY Windows Program/Game Without Issue.
Parallels Is A Mac Application That Runs Virtual Machines (VM) With OSX As The Host OS.
ie Parallels Creates A Container That You Can Install/Run Another (Guest) OS In, eg Windows/Linux/OSX Server.
Rather Than Having To Create Another Installation Of Windows To Run Under Parallels (As Was The Case Up To PD2),
Parallels Also Has An Option To Create A Windows VM From A BootCamp Partition.
I Made The Comment:
'My VM Is Bootcamp XP SP3.
Both VM & Bootcamp Work Fine.'
To Report That After The PD4 Upgrade, I Was Able To Run Windows From Either Scenario.
(I Had A Previous Problem Booting Into BootCamp, When I Updated To WinXP-SP3 Inside Parallels.)
The Duelist
Last edited: Nov 28, 2008