Running at full speed using Apple Boot Camp 4.0
The fastest way to run our software is to use Mac OS Boot Camp (free with the installation of OS X). This utility will create a second disk partition on your existing startup disk on which you will be able to install a Microsoft Windows system. To switch to Windows, reboot the computer and select the Windows operating system. Since Windows runs on its own hard drive partition and does not share resources or hardware with a running Mac OS, this type of installation is the fastest and the most compatible (trouble-free) way to run Windows software on a Mac computer. It does, however, require a reboot of the computer to switch from one operating system to another.
Running a virtual machine (VM) with VirtualBox, VMware Fusion, or Parallels
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Another way to run Windows applications on a Mac is to create a virtual computer that supports the execution of Microsoft Windows. We are aware of three products that can run Windows:
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Running without Windows using CrossOver
Many of our customers have chosen CrossOver (from www.codeweavers.com), or its open-source counterpart, Wine. The main benefit of such a solution is the ability to run Windows software on a Mac without installing Windows. https://mpyellow873.weebly.com/blog/adobe-photoshop-on-mac-free-download. Besides representing a cheaper alternative (one does not need to purchase a license for Microsoft Windows), it allows the user to start Windows applications much more quickly since there is no need to reboot the computer or start a Windows session in a Virtual Machine. Such benefits come however at the cost of slower performance as well as potential minor compatibility issues. Our own speed tests suggest that memory and disk-intensive tasks may take up to twice as long to perform as they may take in Boot Camp, yet on typical smaller projects, Crossover can achieve performances near to that of the fastest installation. Again, on small projects, a difference in speed may be unnoticeable. One should also note that while QDA Miner, Simstat, and WordStat are able to run on a Mac with CrossOver, many other Windows applications cannot be run on CrossOver.
How fast are those solutions?
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We tested the speed of WordStat content analysis and text mining module using the five above-mentioned Mac OS installations. We ran WordStat from our qualitative data analysis software QDA Miner. Two datasets were used as benchmarks: a dataset of 916 documents, totaling 2.25 million words, as well as a second dataset of 174,222 short responses, totaling 3.35 million words. We performed three tasks on each data set: 1) a word frequency analysis; 2) a phrase extraction, and 3) a thematic content analysis using the Regressive Imagery Dictionary. Figure 1 presents the relative performance of those five solutions, compared to the fastest performance one could get while running Windows with Boot Camp.