Bootcamp and external hard disk?

ok so i'm going to be getting a mbp in the next week and was wondering whether boot camp can be set up on an external disk? this would be very helpful for me as it would allow me to be able to get a 128gb ssd in my macbook and keep that clean with just os x.
I am fully aware of the arguement that ssds are currently over priced but the speed factor is very appealing to me so that is why i am going for that option

thank you
this was just an option but i will most likely have both os' on the ssd and then just program files for windows games on the external drive, i know those games would not benefit from the speed of the ssd, but at least windows overall would

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I'm having a strange problem with HD video footage (1080p from various sources) and playing it back from external hard disk.
Here is the situation:
I have a new 17" Macbook Pro; if I play 1080p video directly from the internal drive, it plays with no problems at all.
I have a 1TB USB 2 external drive; 1080p video also plays back fine from this drive.
I also have 2 G-Drive's; both with a capacity of 1TB each and connected via FireWire 800 and when I try to play 1080p footage from either of these drivers, the video is very stuttery.
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The USB drive is older but for my first tests, was actually NTFS formatted (since Id been using it on my windows PC); the files played fine even with the NTFS formatting and over 200GB of files on the drive.
I then wiped the drive and formatted as Mac OS Extended, transferred a couple of video files and played them, again they played back fine.
The thing is, if I simply move/copy files between internal drive and fire wire drive; and from internal drive to USB drive, the fire wire drives are clearly much faster.
So it's not like the fire wire drives are running slow, the problem is only in the playback of the files.
Also, as I have 2 of these fire wire drives, 1 drive is empty appart from the video files im trying to play (less than 200MB), the other drive has about 200GB on it and the video doesn't play properly on either of them.
But as i said, if I simply connect the drives up to the MacPro we have in the office, the videos play back without a hitch.
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EDIT:
Forgot to mention.
I also tried setting the 2 fire wire (G-Drives) up as a striped raid.
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3) Can I back up the bookshelf to icloud and save memory on the iPhone?

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1. Quit iPhoto
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3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
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TD

Recently upgraded Mac 24" to Lion (clean install) and now no external hard disks work with Time Machine

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Solved by Pondini, on another thread I opened...
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Sounds like either:
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Hello I have a iMac with 3.4 GHZ intel core I7, memory 16 GB 1333 MHZ DDR3, and OS X 10.9.4 Software.
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brand: Seagate
4TB
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Click on it, choose Get Info from the File menu, and check the format.
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Help, I installed parallel and windows, and opened videos (on an external hard disk) with windows, and now cannot open them with Mac, and use i movies. How do I reverse this?

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Paragraphs help the reader, just saying.
What are you actually trying to do? Why do you need "DVD size" folders if you're creatng an Archive on an external hard drive?
Also, I understand burning folders instead of individual photos or albums gives you more space on a DVD.
It makes no difference at all.
How can I keep the captions on my photos (not events) when I print or transfer to a new folder?
You can export while writing the metadata to the file in most cases.
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HD? Another HD? You use HD there in a way that makes no sense. What's the point of 'DVD size'?
I also thought I should download future photos to my Canon programming that comes with EOS cameras and edit and then decide which photos to save to iPhoto library and which to save only to my archival HD?
Does this have any relation to the previous questions? You know you can delete from iPhoto, right?
You're somewhat confused and you need to
1. Decide what exactly you want to do
2. Then go about it.
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TD

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