Windows 8 partition: new Mac purchase option recommendations?

I will be running a partitioned environment (yea, I'm hating it but have to). For school, I need to run the Windows version of Excel, PowerPoint and Access only.
My concern is that 256 gig HDD will not be enough storage.
Please reply if you are using a partitioned MacAir with 256 gig.
Thanks

tocjonah wrote:
I will definitely be using Parallels, but will 256 gig be enough for both environments?
It depends at least partially on how much space you currently have free. Moreover, while you can create a pretty large c: drive for Windows, you can arrange the space devoted by Parallels to be dynamically allocated so only the space actually needed is taken up on your internal drive. For example, I have 80GB assigned to my Win 8.1 VM but only 33GB on my internal is actually used, and that's with Office 2010 and 2013 and a bunch of other stuff installed.

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ifarber wrote:
Hi Stefan --
Could you explain how using an external HD helps? If I wanted to use an external HD for read/write access from both Snow Leopard and Windows (XP and/or 7), would it need to be in a particular format? (No partitions - this would be a new, empty drive.) If, for example, I formatted it as NTFS, could OSX write to it if it were external?
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I am setting up boot camp w/ parallels desktop, and I wonder if this windows partition on my Macbook Pro will be part of the automatic time capsule backup? Or do I have to do something specific to ensure this windows partition is also backed up?

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Thanks but when there is a problem, when you import you don't get the
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