Installing Windows on Mac

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defjux · #1 Post by **defjux** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:57 am

This may be a stupid question, but now that pcs and macs use the same cpu, can we install XP or Vista on the new Macbook Pro?

cwestwater · #2 Post by **cwestwater** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:35 am

Looks like it...

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davidspalding · #3 Post by **davidspalding** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:09 am

I'm sure that if you Google....

But then, you can install the MacOS, and run ,whats-it-called, Virtual PC1 2 and get the best of both.

mattfromomaha · #4 Post by **mattfromomaha** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:07 am

I would salivate over installing Mac OSX on my T42......

davidspalding · #5 Post by **davidspalding** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:37 pm

Me, too. Let's just make sure we're doing it over our Chicony or ALPS keyboards, not an NMB.

#6 Post by **jdhurst** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:34 pm

For what it's worth, I run VMware for Windows to run Windows and Linux machines. VMware is top of the class in my opinion. I have seen Virtual PC on a MAC to run Windows XP on that MAC to run specific Windows software. It did not work well, and I was most unimpressed. The situation was eliminated by using a Windows machine. I agree with the solution, but in this case, I was not responsible for it. ... JD Hurst

BruisedQuasar · #7 Post by **BruisedQuasar** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:00 pm

If anyone plans to dual boot a Thinkpad, running Win 2000 or XP with MAC O/S, make sure to read up on the XP eccentric Hard Drive Format system.

A lot of Linux novices have tried to load a Linux distro onto an XP loaded Drive and ended up with a heck of a mess. Do a complete backup before loading MAC onto a Win 2000 or XP Hard Drive. XP does not use FAT32 format, it uses FTSD (or something close to those initials) & I hear a lot more often about the Linux Distro "safe" partition utility going South than about it working out. But... I do hear from the novice who did not study up on Linux first.

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