Running windows programs on MBP

[VikkiB]

Is VM any good nowadays? When I used it a few years to it was chronic. Just fancy a MBP but I use a lot of windows based programs.

or is there any other alternatives?

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

Yeah Parallels works fine, or you can always dual boot and have both OS's installed

 

[Krispwee]

Parallels is my VM software of choice for work. Seems to deal with retina display better than VMWare as well as networking. Works perfectly on mine giving it 4GB RAM (16GB installed). Pretty crap with games though so bootcamp for that if I ever need to.

 

[VikkiB]

Ideal, is it expensive to buy parallels? I don't do gaming, it's more accounting software etc.

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

Ideal, is it expensive to buy parallels? I don't do gaming, it's more accounting software etc.

About £50. I would just dual boot tbh

 

[Nik]

Having tried both Parallels 9 and VMWare fusion 6 recently, I actually prefer VMWare fusion. Runs all my windows stuff perfectly on OSX.