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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
There are two different ways to use Windows on a Mac.
1. Bootcamp, which basically installs Windows as a separate operating system your hard drive. You can switch between running Windows and OS X by rebooting your Mac.
2. Parallels, which is hardware virtualization software. You can think of this as your Mac computer running an emulator running Windows, sort of like how people download Gameboy emulators on their PC. Parallels runs Windows within the context of OS X. So you can run both at once. Performance is worse with virtualization software. |
Parallels isn't free and if you want a hypervisor to run basic Windows stuff and not play games / heavy 3D grahpics then you should try Oracle VirtualBox first since it is free and it does hardware virtualization.
Parallels 10 is the best virtualization software for the Mac followed by Fusion and VirtualBox. Some might say Fusion is better but overall it's not. It does some things better.
For Windows users 8 and 10 comes with Client Hyper-V built in.
I'm a Microsoft ***** I must admit 