General

Make sure you have a copy of windows and a copy of your mac os. back up everything on mac, allocate space for windows via bootcamp and just follow instructions.

[quote=SillyBats]Hey there~ I use a Macbook Pro 15 inch to play Maplestory and I used bootcamp to do this. You will need: Windows 7-8 Installation Disc, at least 100 Gbs space left. The installation itself is pretty straightforward but make sure you partition Windows to around 150Gbs if you're also planning to get other games. I only did 80Gbs and had to repartition. What is partition you ask? Well it is a 'fancy' term that basically means that letting Windows use some of the GDDR5 or DDR3 SDRAM that your Mac comes with. In a nutshell, if you choose to partition 100Gbs, its like buying a Windows PC with only 85Gbs of memory or so (Windows 7-8 takes up space) Good Luck![/quote]

Actually Windows doesn't take that much space

The OS takes roughly at most 25GB with updates. I did a lot of clean installation for windows. Having 40GB will be sufficient just for running Maple.

Partition means space allocation on disk (aka what you see as Hard Disk Drive in the OS, in Windows, Mac, Linux, etc)

There are lots of ways to get a copy of windows but most students can get 8.1 for free with DreamSpark, so you might want to look into that.

Most convenient way to boot Windows that might cost a bit of money:
Install parallels VM > install maplestory > go into Regedit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>HARDWARE>DESCRIPTION>System> double click VideoBiosVersion and delete the description or change the text to anything else
Pros: Really easy and you don't need to reboot all the time.
Cons: Games on your VM won't be at their full potential because running 2 OSs at the same time is pretty CPU intensive.

Free way as long as you have a copy of Windows:
Open up Bootcamp assistant and have it partition a part of your harddrive for Windows. Make sure you have your Windows install on either a disk or flash drive and follow the on-screen instructions. You can then easily boot into Windows and treat the partition as a normal Windows computer.
Pros: Also really easy
Cons: Rebooting all the time

Alternatively you can do booth and Parallels has an option to open your Windows partition without rebooting.

Good luck!

Hey there~ I use a Macbook Pro 15 inch to play Maplestory and I used bootcamp to do this. You will need: Windows 7-8 Installation Disc, at least 100 Gbs space left. The installation itself is pretty straightforward but make sure you partition Windows to around 150Gbs if you're also planning to get other games. I only did 80Gbs and had to repartition. What is partition you ask? Well it is a 'fancy' term that basically means that letting Windows use some of the GDDR5 or DDR3 SDRAM that your Mac comes with. In a nutshell, if you choose to partition 100Gbs, its like buying a Windows PC with only 85Gbs of memory or so (Windows 7-8 takes up space) Good Luck!

forgot that Mac has that option too >.>

well I'm not a mac user. Ask me pretty much anything about custom built PC and you'll get more jargons

It's not particularly complicated, but it requires some computer-skilled setup. And it's NOT free.

Macs come with Bootcamp which allows you partition your hard drive into two separate sections, one for the normal Mac operating system and one for Windows.
You need to buy and install Windows on the second partition and then Bootcamp will let you choose which operating system you want to use when you start your Mac.
You then download and install Maplestory on the Windows partition and it will play just like it was on a normal Windows PC.

Look for bootcamp assistant in your mac. It will tell you how to install step by step.

You will have to be able to boot to windows from a mac:
Can be done via Parallel Desktop for Mac
Tutorials are available on the internet: I have no Mac so I don't know how to do that.

Should've got Windows for gaming.