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Is there performance decrease with windows on a Mac?

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I have been looking between the Macbook Air and the Dell XPS 13.

There is no doubt about installing windows on the Mac.

I don't know if there are optimization problems with windows on a Mac.

The two versions that I'm looking at are pretty similar in performance but I'm assuming that is the mac running OS X.

 

Does anyone have experience in performance issues after installing windows using boot camp (NO VIRTUALIZATION).

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No, Bootcamp runs OS X natively on the hardware, so there's no performance loss.

 

I have a Late 2011 Mac Mini with a Windows 10/OS X El Capitan dual-boot.

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It will be slower than just a windows laptop running windows

No, it won't. It's running directly off of the hardware without any sort of virtualization...

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It will be slower than just a windows laptop running windows

going out from what? there is no "generic windows laptop" to compare here.

 

it'll run as if it would on a "native windows" laptop thats built similarly.

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that said, i've seen someone play skyrim on a macbook air...

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No, Bootcamp runs OS X natively on the hardware, so there's no performance loss.

 

I have a Late 2011 Mac Mini with a Windows 10/OS X El Capitan dual-boot.

My mac laptop slows down quite a bit when using windows I thought this was normal?

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I have been looking between the Macbook Air and the Dell XPS 13.

There is no doubt about installing windows on the Mac.

I don't know if there are optimization problems with windows on a Mac.

The two versions that I'm looking at are pretty similar in performance but I'm assuming that is the mac running OS X.

 

Does anyone have experience in performance issues after installing windows using boot camp (NO VIRTUALIZATION).

well if you're talking about not using a VM then it will be a pretty poor experience.  The MacBook Air is significantly less powerful than a XPS 13.  Not only that things like the touchpad, wireless card, and other components aren't going to have the greatest support as Apple doesn't make Windows Drivers.

Please spend as much time writing your question, as you want me to spend responding to it.  Take some time, and explain your issue, please!

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My mac laptop slows down quite a bit when using windows I thought this was normal?

That's not normal, no. 

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Wouldn't that be clock speeds?

I'm talking about comparing apples to apples literally. lol

Im comparing a apple laptop with similar specs with another windows laptop

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You'll have to use Apple-Provided drivers, but that includes trackpad (if needed, idk), smooth scrolling, display drivers, I/O drivers, etc. It's pretty full-featured and inside one package.

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well if you're talking about not using a VM then it will be a pretty poor experience.  The MacBook Air is significantly less powerful than a XPS 13.  Not only that things like the touchpad, wireless card, and other components aren't going to have the greatest support as Apple doesn't make Windows Drivers.

There are 15 different verions of the Dell XPS 13 2015 edition and there are like a ton of different versions of Macbook Air's.

I'm talking about the Dell with the i5 and the Mac with the i5 and same clock speed.

 

Also Boot Camp will take care of all the drivers I need.

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