How many actually...

I was just wondering, how many people with Macs actually run windows on their machine? If so, what is the best way of doing it at this point of time. Also, do you partition the internal hdd into mac/windows or have a separate HDD and boot it off of that?

 

I only run windows to play the occasional game. There are different ways to do it, either via bootcamp, or a VM like VMWare or Parallels. With a VM, there is no need to partition the drive, it will just create a virtual HDD.
Everyone is different. I personally hardly ever run windows these days, for others it's a necessity (work, school, what-have-you).
My advice is to use bootcamp, as you can run windows with native speed. I don't believe you can use bootcamp with an external drive though. You can choose how much you wish to partition, I always just use 32gb.

 

Against what EULA?

Hardware doesn't have EULA. Windows Software running OSX (e.g. vmware) isn't against vmware's EULA.

 

It believe it breaks OSX's EULA.

I think I missed something here..

 

i am not seeing any EULA mentioned either, but if there is anything that's violating EULA it would be on MS's part. apple's switch to intel basically increases their market share through the ability to install windows natively

 

I have Windows installed via Boot Camp, but I rarely ever go into it, only either to play some games or... well playing games is the only thing I have to do with Windows now in days. I partitioned mine at 32GB, and it's almost full with 5 games, so I'd recommend it a bit bigger.

 

There is no EULA problems associated with running Windows on an Apple machine, that is what you are thinking of. That isn't what the OPs post is about, so no worries.

 

Thats a good question and I may be able to help here as a new mac owner and a owner of Vmware software and vista ultra OS that I bought after buying this mac, I can say I don't need windows and I don't run it and i'm not to impressed with vmware also I think when I do reformat again i'll probably do a duel boot and leave out the vmware, I really think I wasted money buying both and wouldn't recommend it unless you play games,

JMO

 

my 3+ year old MBP has had WIndows XP on it since boot camp came out in beta.... I've used it a total of about 7 times for a game or two... My new MBP is only a couple of months old, and the only time I've used Vista was when i set it up to be there just in case I needed it, and one other time testing how something worked for a few minutes... I do it for a just in case, but have no intention of actually using it... unless some Windows game comes out that I cant get running in Wine that I actually want to play (which is rare)