You lose so much running Windows via bootcamp that I don't bother anymore and just use VMware fusion. Only having access to the nvidia graphics makes the laptop

You lose so much running Windows via bootcamp that I don't bother anymore and just use VMware fusion. Only having access to the nvidia graphics makes the laptop too damn hot & drains more battery. Having to manually dink around with the fans is annoying as well. The deal breaker is the gimped functionality of the trackpad. With the i5/i7 processor and 8 gigs of ram, I haven't noticed a large difference in performance between running windows in bootcamp vs the VM. This was not the case on my old core 2 duo macbook. I only use windows on my laptop for development work though, if you are looking to run windows for games, obviously the performance won't be the same in a VM.