I'd probably not use the MBA we have for parallels gaming and would do bootcamp on it, but it's just not a powerful computer. If you are looking to setup the Windows for the first time, you could try. For example, you cannot pause, take snapshots or compress the virtual machines based on boot camp. Performance is probably better in bootcamp but with my setup (maxed out late 2013 27" iMac) it runs well enough for me to play what I want on it. The major difference in running a virtual machine from boot camp and running a virtual machine from the Mac hard disk is the limitations of boot camp based virtual machine. Parallels starts up pretty fast (I do not leave it running) and I typically move the Windows window onto another screen and play games there while OSX runs on the iMac monitor for everything else I'm doing. I have a 2009 MacBook and I have Virtual Box setup on it with Windows 7, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL 2008 with Management Studio. Everything runs really well and I actually play the games now that I do not have to boot up. I devoted 4GB of RAM, 1GB of Video Memory, and 2 CPU's in the setup for this particular virtual machine. I have Star Wars the Old Republic, Marvel Heroes, Rift, DC Universe Online, and a bunch of Steam games (that do not run on OSX) installed on it. I have Parallels 8 and am running Win 7 Ultimate on it. But about 6 months ago I removed the bootcamp partition b/c I just didn't want to restart and only be in windows to play games. I've accepted the fact that most games aren't coming to the Mac so for years I ran bootcamp.
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