Installing Windows 8 on macbook air

Hi! I'm planning to buy a macbookair 256 ssd next week for simple photo and video editing (for personal use) and I want to install windows 8 on it because I use coreldraw x7at work. How much partition should I give to Windows? evenif corel is the only thing I'll install on my windows and save all the corel files I made in an external drive, will it consume my storage and left with almost nothing on my os x? Should I buy a mac with bigger storage?

I would start by installing windows in the free virtual machine called virtualbox it will make it's size dynamic so it will not take up the size in one go and it's much easier to install for people who are not used to installing windows from scratch.

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Hey komalsingh,
Thanks for the question. I understand you are having issues with your MacBook Air keyboard and BootCamp. The Boot Camp Installation & Setup Guide provides some information that may be relevant:
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via page 8 of
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1636/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_ 10.8.pdf
Thanks,
Matt M.

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Wondering if anyone can advise me on where I'm going wrong..
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2. After this process is complete, Boot Camp asks to insert the Windows CD, did this and pressed OK.
3. The system rebooted in Windows Installer
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10. Blank screen appears and says: Press any key to boot from CD....
11. I dont press anything then the message appears: "Disk error, Press any key to restart"
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Hey all,
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Install windows on MacBook Air SSD?

Hello,
I'm interested in buying a 1.6 GHz (or 1.8 GHz) MacBook Air with a 64GB solid-state drive.
Is it possible to run Windows on such a machine using either Parallels or VMware Fusion?
I won't need to use iLife on this MacBook Air.
Thanks!
Mike

Yes, there is enough space on the drive. VMWare Fusion itself needs 140 MB of space. The VM with XP will need about 15 GB once you get all your software on there (Office, etc). There won't be masses of space left, but it will go. I would advice using Monolingual http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/ to remove all unnecessary language packages from OS X. That alone will save you as much space as your XP install without additional software.
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I have another laptop with Windows 7 and problem finding DVD or CD Sharing on control panel.
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Hello ,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
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