virtual machine or dual boot?

[gamer01010]

hey guys,

I've wanted windows 10 on my upgraded imac 2008 for some time now, but the boot camp application can never seem to work so i was following a tutorial to do this using a virtual machine but now that i opened the virtual machine im wondering why i should even continue trying to install windows on my imac and use dual boot anyway. Am I losing any performance or something?

[Fennie]

with virtual machines. Ofc you will lose performance from your cpu due to running Two operating systems at a time. and id say Try more and more to install win 10 on your mac fully without VMs its a challenge that grants you skill overall

[YourRandomForumGuy]

can you pls share the specs

[YourRandomForumGuy]

you would have to use a virtual machine as windows 10 bootcamp is not supported on imac 2008 more about that here and yes whatever your specs you would be losing serious performance to be productive but why do you need it anyway? 

[Master Disaster]

15 minutes ago, Fennie said:

with virtual machines. Ofc you will lose performance from your cpu due to running Two operating systems at a time. and id say Try more and more to install win 10 on your mac fully without VMs its a challenge that grants you skill overall

Not if you know what you're doing and are doing it for the right reasons because fun fact, most of the time your CPU is actually doing very little work. You can pretty easily give up 50% of its performance and not really notice it.

 

The workload matters hugely. If you're doing cross platform coding, office work, web browsing or other light tasks you'd never notice but if you want to do heavier workloads (gaming, transcoding/rendering etc) then you shouldn't rely on VMs as running the task on one machine will severely impact the other. In this case it would be better to dual boot and keep them separate unless you need the parallelisation.

 

7 minutes ago, YourRandomForumGuy said:

you would have to use a virtual machine as windows 10 bootcamp is not supported on imac 2008 more about that here and yes whatever your specs you would be losing serious performance to be productive but why do you need it anyway? 

You can't possibly know this for a fact. See above.

 

19 minutes ago, gamer01010 said:

hey guys,

I've wanted windows 10 on my upgraded imac 2008 for some time now, but the boot camp application can never seem to work so i was following a tutorial to do this using a virtual machine but now that i opened the virtual machine im wondering why i should even continue trying to install windows on my imac and use dual boot anyway. Am I losing any performance or something?

What is your main workload? Why do you need Windows over macOS? What are the specs of the machine?

[williamcll]

Dual boot. A 2008 mac will struggle with virtualization.

[YourRandomForumGuy]

3 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

if you want to do heavier workloads (gaming, transcoding/rendering etc)

gaming is probably his workload cuz his name is @gamer01010 so he will face huge performance loss unless he has something like 8 cores and 32gb ram and 16gb graphics or atleast 8gb 

[Fennie]

3 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Not if you know what you're doing and are doing it for the right reasons because fun fact, most of the time your CPU is actually doing very little work. You can pretty easily give up 50% of its performance and not really notice it.

 

well we don't know what were doing. i think that should be clear

[Master Disaster]

Just now, YourRandomForumGuy said:

gaming is probably his workload cuz his name is @gamer01010 so he will face huge performance loss unless he has something like 8 cores and 32gb ram and 16gb graphics or atleast 8gb 

Guy has a 2008 iMac, I'd be VERY surprised if they are using it for gaming.

 

Also I am neither a master of anything nor a disaster.

[YourRandomForumGuy]

yeah but it cud also be rendering transcoding etc or he wud have been using a pc

[gamer01010]

 

i didnt expect this many responses so thanks, the specs are 

 

2.66 intel core duo

 

1tb ssd

 

6gb ram

 

radeon 8800gs

[gamer01010]

and are there really any issues with my cpu not being able to use dual boot, because even before patching to mojave i had boot camp on all other versions of os so i nnatrally assume that apple wouldnt put boot camp on a mac that doesnt support it?

[YourRandomForumGuy]

apple did support bootcamp on 2008 imac a few years ago but since you have a core 2 duo win 10 ain't gonna run well better try win 7 sp1 on on a virtual machine