Windows on macbook air

Hi!
I am going for the lates gen macbook air 13 with i7 and 8 gb of RAM as my first mac.
But there is som software (note havy software) that i need windows for. How should i install windows? using bootcamp or parallels??
Is the macbook air powerful enough to run osx and windows using parallels without problems? and will bootcamping windows reduce the performance of the mac overall?

Unless the Windows software you want to use is incredible CPU intensive, using Parallels or VMWare (or even the free VirtualBox) will probably suit you fine. I use PD and Win7 with a number of applications on a 2011 MBA. The ony time I notice any speed degredation is when Win7 is booting up or coming out of hibernation; once it is running there's no noticable performance hit. I can move back and forth between Windows and the Mac smoothly and the programs run fine. (There is, however a noticable hit on battery life because PD is a heavy CPU user.) BootCamp, because it allows you to run Windows natively, has no affect on the Mac because when you are running Windows in BootCamp you aren't running the Mac OS. With BootCamp you run one or the other at one time unlike PD which lets you run multiple OS versions at one time

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