Is Windows 100% compatible with Mac hardware?

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Could there be any possible issues with running Windows XP or 7 on a
Mac? Or is Windows 100% compatible with Mac hardware?
 
Could there be any possible issues with running Windows XP or 7 on a
Mac? Or is Windows 100% compatible with Mac hardware?
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Depends on the Mac ;-)

I'm running OSX, XP and Win7 on a Macbook Pro (unibody).

Main problem is the keyboard is missing some useful keys (page up/down)
and the trackpad doesn't do right clicks...

With an external mouse it works well enough.

Guy
 
Could there be any possible issues with running Windows XP or 7 on a
Mac? Or is Windows 100% compatible with Mac hardware?
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No, it's not compatible with Mac hardware, at all. It's possible to
use Windows on a Mac only by using it in a sort of "virtual machine, by
using Boot Camp, available only in newer versions of the MacOS X.

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Could there be any possible issues with running Windows XP or 7 on a
Mac? Or is Windows 100% compatible with Mac hardware?
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Mac hardware... *grin*

Now - with Intel Macs - the difference between a Windows PC and a Macintosh
is basically a hardware check by OS X proving the hardware was sold by
Apple. ;-)

Windows will run fine on a Macintosh with no other operating system
installed. I have a friend that has a Macintosh laptop and desktop and has
not booted to OS X on either one in a year or more - one doesn't even have
OS X installed at all - it has Windows Server 2008 R2 installed.

Now - as for *why* you would want to do this - I have no explanation. You
spent more for hardware you could have gotten for a lot less in the same
configuration. ;-)
 
Could there be any possible issues with running Windows XP or 7 on a
Mac? Or is Windows 100% compatible with Mac hardware?
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Macintosh computers come in many flavors and generations. For
example, I have an old Quadra here, running a Motorola 68K
family processor. No, no version of Windows will install directly
on that. The driver situation would be a disaster (Nubus, not PCI).

On a later machine, a G4 (PowerPC processor), I run windows via
using Virtual PC for Macintosh. That works fine and allows running
a Windows OS in a standalone window. I run MacOS 9, MacOSX, and
Virtual PC for my other OS options.

The third generation of processors for Mac, is Intel.
(68K CISC, PowerPC RISC, Intel x86.) Since the Intel processor
is the same as the ones used on PCs, that should give you more
options for OSes. I think BootCamp, gives you dual booting.
Note they mention that BootCamp comes with drivers, which would
be an important component of installing an OS. Make sure
the driver support is there, for whatever OS you want
to use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software)

This one, allows running MacOSX and Windows at the same time.
I'm guessing this is similar to Virtual PC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallels_Desktop_for_Mac

It is also possible to run MacOSX for Intel, on top of PC
type equipment. There are lots of people out there
doing Hackintosh experiments, which you can find with
a search engine. They discuss which hardware platforms
are "good enough" to support booting either kind of OS.
So you can also do this kind of dual booting, in the
opposite direction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackintosh

Paul
 
In view of some of the silly and vague advice already given, I'd just like
to offer Paul a KUDOS for a clear, concise response to the OP.
If the OP doesn 't understand it all, and many people won't, at least
the words/components needed to do a search engine search are there for the
OP.
OP: Pay most attention to Paul's post; it's good.

Good job, Paul,

HTH,

Twayne`


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Main problem is the keyboard is missing some useful keys (page up/down)
and the trackpad doesn't do right clicks...
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I'm new to the Mac world, so I may be off base here, but ...

I have an iMac with OS X 10.6.3, and I can do page up/down using fn with
up/down arrows, and right-clicks using control-click.

FWIW, there's a scary list of Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts at

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343?viewlocale=en_US
 
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Could there be any possible issues with running Windows XP or 7 on a
Mac? Or is Windows 100% compatible with Mac hardware?
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Somehow this reminds me of Samuel Johnson's famous observation:

"A woman in the pulpit is like a dog raised up on its hinder legs. It is not
surprising that it does it poorly, but rather that it would want to do so at
all."
 
Depends on the Mac ;-)

I'm running OSX, XP and Win7 on a Macbook Pro (unibody).

Main problem is the keyboard is missing some useful keys (page up/down)
and the trackpad doesn't do right clicks...

With an external mouse it works well enough.

Guy
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This problem will soon be solved after Steve Jobs and Bill Gates beat
the hell out of each other. Whichever one lives after the beating
will determine which hardware will continue being manufactured in the
future.

You can place bets now. Who will live, Jobs or Gates?
 
This problem will soon be solved after Steve Jobs and Bill Gates beat
the hell out of each other. Whichever one lives after the beating
will determine which hardware will continue being manufactured in the
future.

You can place bets now. Who will live, Jobs or Gates?
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My money's on Bill, Jobs is doing good just being vertical, and the
"mac" is already converted over to Intel.
 
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