Dean "Playing games" is the ultimate aim because the reason my grandson is learning Virtual Basic (mentioned in a previous post) is to program video games. Admittedly it'll be a while before he is pressing the computer to its limit. Thanks for the tip on VirtualBox which I shall look into. Bob On 2010-06-28, at 3:16 PM, Dean Danis wrote: > > This may seem like a dumb question, but why do you need to use Boot Camp? > Normally I would only suggest using that if you need to run a Windows OS that > needs to take full advantage of the hardware. Like for playing games. If you > are planning on using Windows for email, or Microsoft Office, then I would > suggest using VirtualBox instead. It's free and works very will. It will run > Windows 7 in a virtual environment inside your Mac OS. It's the best of both > worlds rather than having to restart the computer into Windows. > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads >