MacOS with XP

[Carlos]

Hi group,

is it possible to have dual boot MacOS with XP, each one from its partition

thanks in advance,
Carlos

 

[Mayayana]

| is it possible to have dual boot MacOS with XP, each one from its
partition
|

Apple goes to great lengths to make sure their
OS will only run on their own hardware. (There used
to be "white box" Macs before Steve Jobs returned
to the company, but that was a long time ago.)

You can do what a lot of people do: Buy a Mac
for swank and simplicity, then install Windows via
Bootcamp in order to have greater software choice.
But that's a *very* expensive option.

 

[Ken Springer]

| is it possible to have dual boot MacOS with XP, each one from its
partition
|

Apple goes to great lengths to make sure their
OS will only run on their own hardware. (There used
to be "white box" Macs before Steve Jobs returned
to the company, but that was a long time ago.)

From what I understand, there is proprietary software you need to make
things run, it's not the hardware.

IIRC, an old enough copy of either VM Fusionware or Virtual Box will run
the Mac OS of that era. Apple took the offending one to court for
pirating the proprietary software, so the ability to run OS X was
removed. AFAIK, no one has reverse engineered the software.

You can do what a lot of people do: Buy a Mac
for swank and simplicity, then install Windows via
Bootcamp in order to have greater software choice.
But that's a *very* expensive option.

Swank didn't even come into my calculations for buying a Mac. In
fact, I hated paying what I did. LOL But I'm never going back.

I don't use Boot Camp, as I wanted to be able to run both Mac and
Windows software side by side, at the same time. From my experience
with that, if you like to do a lot of multitasking, max the RAM on the
Mac. I use Parallels Desktop for Mac, and I can have the Windows
software running in it's own window on the Mac desktop. I don't mean
there is an XP window with a Word window inside that. The Word window
is on the OS X desktop, there is no Windows XP window.

"Windows XP window" sound kinda strange. :-D


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Ken

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