Originally Posted by
bjohnson09
Ill have to take a look into this. To be honest, I just got my first Mac a month or two ago, so Im still learning.
bootcamp is basically a way to install windows natively on your mac. your mac runs on (get ready for this) the exact same hardware that pcs run on.
[sidenote, this did not use to be the case until about little over 6 years ago]
anyway, that all being said, what happens is you dual boot. you reboot your computer and you pick, this time I will boot into windows, this time I will boot into mac.
the upside is that it's not emulated. it's run 100% natively. That means you can game to your hearts content or do whatever 3d rendering you can do on a mobile video card.
the downside is that you need to reboot to get there.
You can also emulate the boot camp partition while still in osx if you need to go in there to log a flight or whatever and don't feel like rebooting. or if you saved a document in a folder not shared between both OSes. stuff like that.
you can emulate with paralells like you do now, or with vmware fusion, or any other similar software. but running windows natively is da bomb if and when you have the need for it