How have you partitioned your drive for use with bootcamp?

I'm planning to get a MBP after the next revision [WWDC?]. In any case, I'm curious as to how bootcamp users have partitioned their drives.

At the moment, assuming whichever model I get has a 200GB drive I think my partitioning would look something like this:

OSX: 35 GB
Vista: 40 GB
Data/Docs/AV: 112 GB

My only concern is with the OSX and data partitions being on opposite ends of the drive. Could result in poor porformance. Any ideas?

 

I reformated the drive, clean installed OS X on a 70GB partition, leaving 50GB unpartitioned.

After OS X was installed, and I saw that it was good, installed Boot Camp and then Vista Home Premium on the remaining 50GB partition.

It was painless.

 

wow. That's not leaving a lot of room for OS X and all the awesome applications you're going to find Kelch! I have a 120 GB hard drive and allocated 15GB of that to XP. I've got all the programs I need for XP on there and still have about 1.6GB left for data.
Unless Vista will be your main operating system(in which case, save money and buy a PC) you should definitely keep OS X in the lead in terms of space(you'll need more than 35GB, honestly). And why are you going with Vista instead of XP? There's not much more you can do with Vista, and XP is a lot smaller and will run very much faster.


About your question of if you will see suffering performance, I doubt it. As long as the sections are contiguous then you should be fine.

 

Well, this is the reason I asked. I've never really used OSX outside of the hour or so I spent playing around in the Apple store yesterday, and the 15 minutes I spent using a friends MBP 17".

Optimally, I'd eliminate the need for windows entirely... But I'm not sure I will be able to do that. For instance, I know there are several windows only applications I'll be needing eventually for my major [Computer Engineering]. I can always run those in parallels, but It would also be nice to have the opportunity to play a game like C&C3 every now and then when I have some downtime. Then again, another option would be to get a MB and a gaming console to solve that problem.

Ah, so many choices. I suppose the easy answer would be to get a maxed out T61p and stick with Windows, but I do really like the Apple hardware and OSX, from what little I have seen.

BTW... As far as XP vs. Vista.

I'm probably one of the few people that is absolutly 100% sold on it. I've had it since launch day and really have been very satisifed with it. There are some minor interface issues that really need to be worked on, some compatibility problems [itunes for example], and some other minor issues... But, overall I love Vista and I cannot stand to use XP anymore.

 

I have a 60GB partition for XP, and the rest of my 160GB (131 after formatting) for OSX. I think I will end up changing it to 80 gigs or more for XP, as I haven't booted into OSX for months now.

I'm such a bad Mac user.......

 

For perspective, can I ask why you haven't?

 

I have a 160GB drive, gave Boot Camp 40 or so to fit the system (Win XP) and however many games I wanted to have installed, the rest is OS X. I almost never boot into Windows (since all I use Windows for is play games), but when it happens I have more than enough space lying around at least.

 

I gave windows 20 and OS X the rest.

 

i couldn't possibly be dual booting as I need all the space I can get, editing video and being an animator, and illustrator storage space is like gold to me, as my files get massive, a 300-500mb photoshop file is definitely not uncommon.
or scans of 100's of frames etc.

If I had a MBP right now (planning on getting one or a mac pro when the new one's are released) it would be at least 60gb of just software, Final Cut studio, + Adobe software etc. maybe more.

I don't know where i am going with this but I have seen some students in video production try to dual boot on 100gb or 120gb drives pretty unsuccesfully, that is unless they have an external, which easily solves that problem, which with a laptop as your only computer in film/video production an external is absolutely necessary.

 

Vista really eats hard drive space.

I gave it 50GB, and only had 20 free with light usage and not that many apps installed. I had turned off Restore Points, but something else somewhere was writing large temp files or cache files or something.

Anyhow, I just wiped Vista from my MacBook and am now running it exclusively on my E1505.