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In a VM, the same score is 182.9 MB/s, a fourfold increase. Under Boot Camp, the 128 GB SSD delivers Random Read throughput of 49.5 MB/s. And once again you can see the effects of storage drivers. The penalty is even worse because the VM only has 1 GB of RAM available, whereas the Boot Camp installation has 4 GB to work with. On the two MacBook Airs, you can really see the hit that the Intel graphics take when they're forced to run using virtual graphics drivers. The Random Read score is 1.2 MB/s under Boot Camp but increases to 2.7 MB/s when using Parallels. Look at the difference in performance on the Mac Mini, where the WEI score goes from 5.9 to 6.9. Surprisingly, one area of Windows performance actually improves dramatically in a virtual machine. The lower scores reflect the differences accurately All of those effects are smooth when running under Boot Camp, but I can see tearing and jerky movements in a virtual machine.

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Both VMware and Parallels have decent drivers capable of delivering Aero support with transparency and other effects. Likewise, graphics performance in a VM suffers because Windows is unable to use the native Nvidia or Intel drivers and instead has to pass everything through virtualized graphics adapters. The difference is even more striking in the two MacBook Airs, where the different CPU models account for part of the gap but the VM adds a further penalty. For those two tasks, you're essentially losing half of the CPU by running in a VM. On my system, the Boot Camp installation scored 308 MB/s for the CPUCompression2Metric and 470.9 MB/s for the Encryption2Metric, versus 152.5 and 223.0 for the same metric under Parallels.

You can see at a glance that virtualization takes a significant chunk of CPU capability away. It's at least $300 if you use commercial virtualization software, and possibly much more if you need to pay for additional licenses for Windows apps. That's a bare minimum of $250 on top of the premium cost you pay for Apple's hardware. If you plan to use Boot Camp exclusively, you can skip this line item. VirtualBox is a free option, but when I looked at it a few months ago it was behind the others in terms of Windows support. I've been able to find discounts that take the cost into the sub-$60 range.

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Virtualization software $0-80 I've been testing VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac.

You can find it discounted from legitimate resellers for roughly $250, so let's use that price. OEM copies are allowed only on new physical hardware.) At the Microsoft Store, that shrink-wrapped product costs $300. (Upgrades are only allowed if you are replacing the installed copy of OS X or a previous version of Windows installed in a VM.

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Windows 7 Professional $250 Under Windows license terms, the only option a normal consumer has for Windows 7 in a VM on a Mac is what's called a Full Packaged Product (FPP) license.

And if your can't-live-without it Windows app is Microsoft Office or an accounting program or a point-of-sale system, well, you have to pay for that too. You can pay for virtualization software or find a free alternative, but Windows itself isn't free.

There's the monetary cost of software, of course, but there are also some hidden performance costs. Before you try it, though, you should learn about the costs-some of them not so obvious at first glance.

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But after a recent memory and disk upgrade I've been looking at virtualization software for OS X, which allows me to run Windows without having to first shut down OS X. On the Mac, I originally installed Windows 7 on a Boot Camp partition. So if a virtual machine can handle both Windows and OS X apps gracefully, I would have a much easier time moving back and forth.

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I have a handful of Windows programs that don't have Mac alternatives, and I have both a Mac and a Windows PC on my desktop. That's actually a pretty compelling pitch for me. Apple pitches it as the way to run "specialty software." You know, "that one Windows application. That's a big selling point for Apple, which gives this feature a marquee position on its "Why You'll Love a Mac" page.