Re: buying new iMac

2014-04-25 Thread Terje Strømberg
That will be a different setup. You will have two hard drives. Not one fusion drive. So, you can install bootcamp on the ssd. Could be interesting to know if you can make a partition for bootcamp saved data on the hard drive from within bootcamp. I beleive it will work. Since you will not have o

Re: buying new iMac

2014-04-24 Thread Daniel Hawkins
Really? That I did not know. I will keep that in mind when I upgrade my Macbook Pro to SSd and move my HDD to the DVD drive bay. Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro On Apr 24, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Terje Strømberg wrote: > Unfortunately, the bootcamp uses the hard drive only. This means boo

Re: buying new iMac

2014-04-24 Thread Terje Strømberg
Unfortunately, the bootcamp uses the hard drive only. This means bootcamp works well on iMac, but do not use the ssd only the hard drive part of the fusion drive. So bootcamp is not as fast as it would be on a single sad drive. Take care 24. apr. 2014 kl. 16:56 skrev Tim Kilburn : Hi, The Fus

Re: buying new iMac

2014-04-24 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, The Fusion drive is physically two drives but you only see it as one. Similar to a RAID setup but actually different. The Fusion drive does make your system considerably quicker and, if you have the cash, I totally recommend it. I'm not really sure how BootCamp handles the Fusion drives

buying new iMac

2014-04-23 Thread Juan Hernandez
Hi All, I have just subscribed to this list. I was subscribed to this list way back in the day, about 8-9 years ago and now I am coming back. I had a question. I am buying a new iMac in the next few days, and I wanted to know something about the fusion drives. The fusion drives, is it