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Originally Posted by DreamTime
Cool, Derek. Thanks for explaining this in more detail. I guess I'm still on the fence about what the best thing to do is. I love my Mac and I would prefer to use it if I could. I downloaded the 30 day trial of VMWare Fusion 10 so I could mess around with it while I read up on VMs in general since I was not previously familiar with them. I guess all I would really need to do at this point is get Windows 10 and buy an external hard drive. I spent so many hours just learning about this stuff over the weekend I had to stop after a certain point lmao. It did become awfully tempting to just buy a cheap Windows laptop and not have to deal with all this other stuff. But, I think I'm pretty close to getting it set up. I'll get back at it this weekend when I have more time 
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No problem Mary. Feel free to hound me more if you want to know more..LOL
BootCamp
Pros:
1. Free + windows 10 license
2. All system resources are utilized by Windows only.
3. Acts like a windows machine
Cons:
1. Requires permanent space allocated to BootCamp
2. Requires rebooting if you ever want to go back to Mac
3. Unable to write into MacOS side of things without 3rd party drivers
VM
Pros:
1. Snapshots
2. Space allocated is only like a file, so free space is still utilized by Mac
3. No need to restart to get into Windows for something.
Cons:
1. Not free, and annual upgrades start to cost a lot
2. Shares resources with MacOS which can be limited if the Mac doesn't have enough RAM, CPUs etc.
3. A little more complicated in initial setup sometimes.
Both have its merits and I ultimately like VMs when the mac has enough resources to run it.
As far as software-wise there is a tool called Easy Mike Tools that will install most of the stuff on windows 10.