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Originally Posted by Tigairius
Their devices are great, but the experiences I have had with the OS were pretty awful. Bootcamp will run programs slower naturally, and mac book air will probably be the least of all the modern macbooks to be able to handle Graal well (although I'm sure it does).
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You must have meant Parallels? I can't imagine it would be blazing fast on a macbook air, but then again with the i5 processor it's comparable to a lot of desktop computers (with the exception of the small but super fast 64gb SSD).
VMWare runs very smoothly on my Macbook Pro Retina, the experience is nearly identical to running the OS natively (so far I've used Windows 7 and Backtrack 5.2 Linux). I used Parallels on my last laptop but I didn't like the interface, worked OKAY. Bootcamp is just a special utility to allow the installed OS to have a boot entry and to provide any supporting drivers so that some special Apple hardware runs on your OS.
I had Windows 7 installed through bootcamp, realistically it's a waste of space... I only installed it so I could play some games in their native environment and I rarely play anything now.
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Originally Posted by Gos_pira
How long ago was it that you tried the Macbook Air, Tig? I can't really believe a new Macbook Air would suck that much.
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For any sort of 3D intensive gameplay it would be pretty bad unless you dumb the settings down to their lowest quality. However, I think he meant developing for Mac.