I updated my i5/8GB Macbook Pro at the weekend with a new 750GB Seagate Momentus hybrid drive. In doing so I ended up putting a clean install of Lion back on (as Paragon Drive Copy messed up the disk partitioning during the image restore killing Bootcamp) and restoring from Time Machine. All works lovely and much speedier than before with its stock 5200 drive.
Thing is, i'm wondering whether I actually need to put Bootcamp back on it? the only thing I ever boot into Windows for on that machine is VS.NET 2010 and SQL Server so wondering whether I could live with just installing them under Parallels or Fusion.
I know both of these are well regarded and that VS.NET and SQL will be fine virtualised BUT has anyone actually tried this as a 'proper' working platform or have they become frustrated with something and gone back to the Bootcamp solution for whatever reason?
So basically, I know it'll work well, but will it work WELL.
Thing is, i'm wondering whether I actually need to put Bootcamp back on it? the only thing I ever boot into Windows for on that machine is VS.NET 2010 and SQL Server so wondering whether I could live with just installing them under Parallels or Fusion.
I know both of these are well regarded and that VS.NET and SQL will be fine virtualised BUT has anyone actually tried this as a 'proper' working platform or have they become frustrated with something and gone back to the Bootcamp solution for whatever reason?
So basically, I know it'll work well, but will it work WELL.
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