I wanted to use Boot Camp for PC games, but now I'm not sure if it's worth it. Is it really worth the cost of a new external hard drive and Windows 7 Home Premium to use Boot Camp? What other reasons would there be to using it? I'm starting to think it was kind of an impulse thing for me, trying to do everything that can be done with my MacBook Pro. Questions about the process: 1. When I partition for Windows, does it have to format my Macbook's hard drive before it can do that? 2. After I set up boot camp and partition Windows, can I ever go back to just OS X Lion? And reestablish that partition as part of my overarching hard drive?
Boot camp sections off a controllable portion of your hard drive to use for windows, you can erase it at any time. As for the use of boot camp, to use windows software on a mac.
What sucks about Boot Camp is because of the way Windows STILL works you MUST boot Windows from your internal drive. Something along the lines of during the Windows boot process it actually initializes all the USB devices, which would include the actual boot drive itself, which the OS is attempting to boot off of. I've read guides on how to get around this, but they all sound pretty shady. I've futzed around with Boot Camp before, but my Windows install always just collects dust as it's a pretty huge pain to actually reboot into Windows. These days there's so few Windows-exclusive games that unless you're hardcore into MMO's you might as well just play games on a 360 or something.
Well it was actually for all the Steam games that aren't compatible with Mac. I have tons. But I could play them on my previous laptop... They're just going to overheat it after ten minutes haha. Having the freedom of Windows sounds like it might be worth it, even if I never use it. But eh. How long does it take to boot up? And I thought I heard you can use it side by side with OS X? Like you can have both of them booted together?
