I have a macbook pro, and I need to use windows on it. Do you think it is better to run it by installing it through bootcamp or should I use Parallels instead?
Bootcamp is the most robust because it actually runs your machine like a true dedicated Windoze machine. When booted in Bootcamp it is Windoze only though. You have no access to your Mac partition until you reboot. If you have to run Mac and Windoze simultaneously then you need one of the virtualizing products, either Parallels or VM Fusion.
My only problem with bootcamp is that I don’t really want to partition my drive, and I would avoid that with Parallels. However, I don’t know if Parallels would be able to handle programs like Matlab and Labview. What would you do?
Have you checked to see if Matlab and Labview are compatible with OS X?
They are, but the college of engineering recommends to run it on windows in order to have every feature. I think I’m going to use bootcamp, but now I wonder how much space I should partition.
Mat lab should have every feature on Mac that it does on Windows. I believe it is generally platform independent. I’m not certain on LabView.
You’d probably be fine with a virtual machine, but you could always partition and just make the Windows part much smaller.
LabView on a virtual machine would likely be difficult. It would be interfacing with hardware connected to your computer through the host OS from inside the VM, which might be iffy.