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Posted 25 March 2007 - 08:28 AM

im getting a macbook pro with bootcamp and am wondering how big the partition should be. All i'm using it for is alot of games.
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Posted 25 March 2007 - 08:47 AM

Depends on how many games you want to install simultaneously and how much space you can sacrifice. On my MacBook Pro, I gave my Windows partition about 20GB.
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Posted 25 March 2007 - 12:22 PM

I'll probably have about 10-15 games at the same time
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Posted 25 March 2007 - 06:08 PM

Then give it as much space as you can reasonably afford; 32GB is the high end in a FAT directory, so that would be as much as I'd try to partition.
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Posted 25 March 2007 - 07:01 PM

peter, do you game on your Macbook Pro? How is it?
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Posted 25 March 2007 - 07:04 PM

The MacBook Pro is great for games.
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Posted 26 March 2007 - 02:49 PM

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Then give it as much space as you can reasonably afford; 32GB is the high end in a FAT directory, so that would be as much as I'd try to partition.

Isn't NTFS better anyway?
For me 32 gigs was definitely not enough ... I settled on 50gigs for Windows, leaving 70gigs for Mac. I'm pretty happy with the setup, although one day when I'm ambitious I'm going to look into a larger, faster drive.
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