It's probably worth mentioning that the cpu in a MacBook Pro is designed with virtualization in mind, there's nothing like the performance hit you'd remember from VirtualPC. So long as you've got plenty RAM you can even play a lot of fairly taxing games in Windows under Parallels. dave On 2010-06-28, at 4:35 PM, Bob McDaniel wrote: > 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 >> > --- Manage your account options at //www.freelists.org/list/muglo