Once you install Windows 7 into Bootcamp, your Mac is basically a Windows PC like any other and gains full advantage of the hardware. any advice?īootcamp creates a seperate space on the storage drive called a partition which acts just like another drive, but is on the same piece of hardware. I have a 15 in macbook pro with the 2.2ghz quad core intel i7 and 4gb of ram. I want to run bootcamp but i dont know if it will effect battery life and speed.