I currently own and use a HP desktop with Windows 7 for my PPL Education software (Private pilot's license), however, after owning a Macbook for 8 months which I use for virtual high school work & using my father's iMac for Adobe CS5 software, using the desktop induces much lethargy (note: personal opinion only). Also, the tower is simply titanic, and takes up a good amount of desk space - therefore, I would like to replace the desktop with a Mac Mini. However, my PPL software is Windows only. Can VMWare/Bootcamp run disks and execute media from them? Is there any other software out there that could do it better?
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I have a quick (or not so quick) question regarding Windows compatibility.
Yes, in bootcamp you'll be able to run programs like you would normally do on PC just make sure that the PPL soft will run on the hardware. I don't recommend using virtualization for heavy graphics like flight simulator.
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I own a Macbook Pro and windows runs great on there, so I'm sure it would run just fine on the mini.
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Parallels is another virtualization suite, but NikiDorian is right; use Bootcamp. Virtualization will only increase the load on your system. And with the Mini your systems resources are somewhat limited. So you could just get a faster Mac because:
If you want an older windows program like that to run well you need RAM and processing power because windows XP and Vista don't take full advantage of hardware graphics acceleration. If the program was written for XP or Vista it will eat up a lot of system resources and Windows 7 does little to fix this unless that older software was updated/optimized for Windows 7.
If you want an older windows program like that to run well you need RAM and processing power because windows XP and Vista don't take full advantage of hardware graphics acceleration. If the program was written for XP or Vista it will eat up a lot of system resources and Windows 7 does little to fix this unless that older software was updated/optimized for Windows 7.
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