Re: OT: New MBP... or not? (Firewire still necessary?)

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Louie Angulo
<louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote:
> So im thinking of installing bootcamp on my Imac to use both platforms.
> my question is:
> Is it wise to do this or will it slow down and have an effect in the
> performance of the computer?

It doesn't affect the performance at all. Works well for audio. If you
use an XP partition with disc formatted to FAT 32 on the Windows side
you can work with those files directly from the mac applications on
the OS X side. When OS X is booted the Windows partition looks just as
an external FAT 32 drive. Very handy! You simply bounce down files
when working in Windows and open them directly from OS X. I do that a
lot when tagging loops for both ACID and Green Apple loops (SoundForge
in XP).

> if i was to do a partition on both,would a 80 GB partition be enough for 
>the
> operating systems to take advantage of the rest of the drive for storage?

For OS X it gives you a better performance in audio applications to
not split up the drive. Just make sure there is plenty of  free space
for the UNIX background routings to keep the drive optimized.

> anybody here using both with parallels?

Not me. Test reviewers says it works well. But that is for simple
office tasks. For audio it is not a good setup. I think it should go
fine to simply boot up Parallels when in the OS X and needing to do a
quick fix in Windows, that's what it is intended for.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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