Any of the north east states for the win . No doubt about it . <| sep |> Use Bootcamp for when you wantneed to reboot your Mac and run just Windows . You won ' t be splitting resources between the two . Use Parallels for when you don ' t want to reboot your Mac to run Windows and will have enough resources for both . Use both Bootcamp and Parallels for when you may find there are times that you want to reboot and times when you don ' t . Common use case I ' ll launch Parallels when I ' m doing web development and want to check how something looks in Windows versions of IE , Chrome , Firefox . I ' ll boot into Windows if I want to run a game . It ' s worth noting that Parallels can provide you with multiple VMs as well as having your Bootcamp partition act as a VM . Parallels will also allow for other OS VMs .