It depends on what specifically you’re looking to do. You will not, however, need a restart, since it’s being run inside macOS. From my experience, you’ll get worse Bluetooth compatibility, worse hardware performance, and with Parallels, if you’re not paying an arm and a leg, parallels will limit Windows’s RAM and CPU usage. Parallels is a virtual machine, and works similarly to VMware or VirtualBox. Also anyone with a Windows ToGo installation on a flash drive can access any data on a bootcamp partition (I don’t think Windows uses the Mac’s T2 encryption). You also need enough drive space to permanently dedicate to Windows, especially since macOS can’t write to the NTFS Windows partition and Windows can’t even read off the main APFS partition. Bootcamp gives Windows more direct hardware access, but because it’s a dual boot solution, you’ll need a restart to get back and forth between Windows and macOS. Parallels does have Metal support now and they point out Overwatch as a use case for it but on my 2014 MBP it wasn't really useable.Īs with anything there’s pros and cons. Me personally I gave up on Boot Camp years ago and just run Parallels and either use my main Windows desktop for beefy things like DOOM 2016 or I gravitate towards Mac-native ports.
#Parallels or boot camp for mac skin#
And since Microsoft is under no obligation to make Windows compatible with Boot Camp (i.e., it's no skin off their nose if they break something) and macOS updates annually (and Windows updates annually or more depending on how you view their named releases) sometimes you're just in this holding pattern waiting for the stars to line up again.
#Parallels or boot camp for mac drivers#
I just saw a post elsewhere in this subreddit saying those drivers have already been updated for the 16" MBP and Catalina so that's good, but it's not uncommon or unheard of for Apple to have delays on these things.
So just know that if you choose Boot Camp, you have to take this guess as to how much space you need and can deprive your main Mac of, regardless of whether or not you use it.ī) Using Boot Camp requires drivers from Apple for your machine and version of the OS. Parallels Desktop, on the other hand, seeks to solve a widespread demand for running not one but multiple operating systems on a single computer in a secure and trusted environment. In addition to the things pointed out here, two more things to consider:Ī) Boot Camp requires a partition, whereas Parallels requires a file of varying size, and it has the ability to compress the file as need be (i.e., if you delete 30GB of files you can shut off the VM and have it shrink the VM's file by about that much). Boot Camp is Apples own answer to consumer demand, and as a part of macOS represents a huge advantage as it eliminates the need to download any third-party apps.
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