How many of you use Bootcamp?


  

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  1. 1. Do you use bootcamp?

    • Yes, I run Windows too
      54
    • No, I have no use for Windows
      21
    • I don't know what Bootcamp is
      5
    • OMG PONIES!
      32


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This poll is poor. You can't get any good results from this.

It should be like this.

I use Bootcamp and don't run OS X

I use OS X and Bootcamp Evenly

I use OS X and Bootcamp once in a while

I use OS X and have a Bootcamp partition, which I no longer use

I don't use Boot Camp Ever

I use VMWare/Parallelz or other Virtulisation software instead of Bootcamp

I don't own a Macintosh

Your post is what's poor.

Its really an "I do" vs "I don't" question. you want me to give options for things I don't care about? the simple answer "yes" covers your first 4 options, and "no" covers your last 3.

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I'm going to install Snow Leopard, Windows 7 and the latest Boot Camp 3.0

Right now, yes I have Boot Camp with Vista (should have XP, I regret the upgrade). But I usually avoid Windows because of boot times and I don't like it as much as I used to do (in fact I started to hate it since about 4 - 5 years, but got a Mac 3 years ago only). Usually, it's when I have games to play (but then again, my PlayStation 3 is my favorite). When my PS3 will be at the end of its cycle, be sure that I will boot in Windows more often to play games (if I upgrade my iMac that is :) )

Oh also, I use it for CATIA and AutoCAD... engineering apps. I really hate that at the very least AutoCAD is not on the Mac. I could understand for CATIA, but still. Maybe one day... maybe.

Other than that, my music library, my emails, my calendar planning, my image editing tools, my movie editing tools, my torrent app, my websites, a few games, ... are all in OS X.

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I use Fusion to log in to work on occasion when I don't feel like lugging my work laptop home, we have custom VPN software that runs so poorly I would never install it on any machine of mine (Windows or Mac), trap it in VM.

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  • 1 month later...

Thanks to VMware Fusion, I really haven't had the need to use boot camp. For most practical purposes I have found virtualization to be superior, because it requires no rebooting. Of course, you lose the ability to run 3D apps, but I have my Windows desktop for that.

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I run boot camp mainly for gaming. And using MS Visual Studio for school. The Snow Leopard boot camp drivers allows me to read my mac partition which comes in handy. Too bad it doesn't give the ability to write like MacDrive does. but MacDrive cost money. lol

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I'm sitting in a Java programming class right now with my old black polycarbonate MacBook, logged into Win7 via Boot Camp. I just prefer using Windows in a programming environment. I don't know why. Sue me.

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