Boot Camp vs Paralles

I use an imac with 16gb of Ram and parallels.  I have never used bootcamp I much prefer having access to both Mac OSX and windows at the same time.

Phil

I have been told that parallels is slower then boot camp; as you use parallels, do you believe the machines you use is slower with parallels or you don't notice any deterioration with parallel (I also I want to run photoshop and illustrator)?

jilo

I dont notice any difference, i give 4gb and 2 cores to parallels, I run illustrator and photoshop on the mac side, oifetn have 2 storyline projects open, with photoshop, illustrator, audacity along with word and powerpoint all at the same time with no slowdown.

I built the Periodic table on a 8gb macbook pro really have seen no need to use bootcamp and always feel that if you have a mac and use bootcamp you have bought an expensive PC

Hi Jilo,

I run Storyline on Win 7 on a late 2008 MacBook using Parallels. My specs are 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 8 GB of DDR3 RAM and I have no problems. I have Parallels set to use 2 GB of RAM.

Like Phil, I don't use Bootcamp as I don't see a real need for it. If you are buying a "newer" Mac, you should not have any problems running both Windows via Parallels and OS X simultaneously.

Now, if we can just get Articulate to build an OS X version of Storyline...

hi,

Parallels, not Bootcamp:

Because I knew I would need to use my new MacBook Pro for Storyline and other PC-only tools in my ISD program at UMBC, I not only have 16GB of RAM but also replaced the hard drive with a solid state one. Makes a huge difference in speed! Thus far I can see no slowdown when using Storyline  under Parallels and everything else in Mac OSX. 

Awesome Joseph, thanks for sharing your specs on this.

Team

Thanks for all the excellent feedback.  Conclusion is that I am going to purchase parallels and hope all goes well.

Once again thanks

Regards

Jilo

I've just bought a MacBook Air and I'm planning to run Storyline on it. I was looking at BootCamp but will probably buy Parallels now, having read the above/

BUT....

This Articulate link tells me that I shouldn't use a network drive when I'm using Parallels: http://www.articulate.com/support/storyline/using-articulate-software-on-a-mac-with-parallels-desktop

I was planning to buy a NAS Drive (Network Assisted Storage drive) so that I could work with a new colleague (using a PC) on the same Storyline products we create.

1. Is it a bad idea to use a NAS Drive that effectively gives us a private network?
2. Does anyone have experience of using a NAS Drive with Parallels?
3. Do you have any guidance or tips you could share?

Much appreciated if you can help - thanks.

The Articulate link says...

Don't work from a network drive or an external USB drive. Doing so can result in file corruption or loss of resources.

Hi Madeline and welcome to Heroes!

If you're like to share files with your colleague you can do so via a network drive, but you'll want to follow the procedure here where you both save and open the .story file on your local drive when it's time to make edits or changes. 

Hi everyone,

I have the same concerns ad I did use Storyline with VMWare virtual desktop and there were restrictions such as installed fonts etc. My question is can I install different fonts on Paralells to use it with Storyline or only the Windows default fonts?

Thanks,

Viktoria

You can install different fonts

Hi Viktoria,

You can install fonts direct into the Windows environment just as you would normally. If you're having a particular issue with VMWare or Parallels could you offer up a bit more information about that? You may want to begin by reviewing the information here to follow the guidelines for working in a Mac environment. 

Hi Eric,

I'm running into a problem where every time I launch Parallels, MyBootCamp opens instead.  Do you know how I can fix this?