O dear, this is a tragic topic. Nevertheless, I just installed Windows XP on my Intel Macintosh and it was easy! Windows XP set me back $115, but innotek VirtualBox, the program that let me run windows, was free. It's pretty fast – it takes about 20 seconds to start Windows (that's faster than my OSX boots!) and about 6 seconds to turn it off.
Why would you ever want to run windows on a Macintosh? Well I can think of two reasons.
1. The Australia Tax office does not put out a version of their tax return software for Macintosh.
2. If you are a web developer, developing on a Macintosh, your sire will probably look great on every browser except for Windows Explorer. That's because Windows Explorer has lots of bugs in it and doesn't display things properly. For this reason, it is a must that you test your websites in Explorer. Seeing as Microsoft have stopped supporting Macintosh, the only way to run Explorer on a Mac is to install Windows. What a shame!
How To Run Mac Os On Windows
So with that by way of excuse, here's how to do it…
1. The Australia Tax office does not put out a version of their tax return software for Macintosh.
2. If you are a web developer, developing on a Macintosh, your sire will probably look great on every browser except for Windows Explorer. That's because Windows Explorer has lots of bugs in it and doesn't display things properly. For this reason, it is a must that you test your websites in Explorer. Seeing as Microsoft have stopped supporting Macintosh, the only way to run Explorer on a Mac is to install Windows. What a shame!
How To Run Mac Os On Windows
So with that by way of excuse, here's how to do it…
There are a few options to run Windows on an Intel Macintosh. Boot Camp, Virtual Box, Parallels and VMware Fusion. The first two are free. If you just want to run Windows totally separately to OSX, turning off the computer between OSX and Windows, then go with Boot Camp, it works well and it's free!
Parallels(click here to download) is better if you want Windows applications more integrated with mac – you can drag and drop between windows and OSX! There is also a program called VMWare Fusion (click here to download) which is like parallels but there doesn't seem to be as much hype about it – I'm not sure why. It's meant to be faster than Parallels. You can download both for a 30 day free trial and work out which one you like.
With Bootcamp Sims gratis downloaden mac. , Microsoft Windows takes over the whole computer. With Parallels Windows runs inside a window. So Parallels is better for integration, (eg you want to run one or two windows programs easily) but Boot Camp better for performance (eg you want to play games).
Office 365 free product key mac. Boot Camp is way cool, pretty darn near enough motivation for me to buy yet another Mac, but this time have an Intel inside. On the other hand, don't forget Apple's ironic warning: 'Word to the Wise: Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it'll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world.
Where is devices on mac. I decided that I'm certainly not a serious Windows user, so I downloaded VirtualBox.(click here for download page and select binaries – OSX) It downloads and installs like a normal mac program. When you run it, it comes up with a menu, I selected new, and it asked what kind of machine I wanted to make:
I chose Windows XP. It tells you to put the install disk in your CDROM drive, it asks a few questions, like how much RAM and so-on. I just picked the default answer every time. Then before you know it Windows is up and running. It automatically worked out all the settings. I didn't have to put in any network settings, or load any drivers or anything. It just worked! I clicked on Windows Explorer and it's surfing the web.
- Running Windows software on a Mac To run your app once installation has completed, open Crossover Office if it isn't already open, and ensure the All Bottles link at the top left is selected.
- If you want to run Windows XP without boot camp and having Mac OS X installed you can follow these steps: 1. Boot from the Mac OS X Install DVD 2. Click on Utilities Disk Utility 3. Select your Hard Disk and click on the 'Partition' tab 4. Make the following selection and then click apply.
- If you have not done so already it is well worth having two desktops on your mac running at the same time. All you need to do it press the F3 key on your keyboard and a little + will appear on the top right of your screen Click on the plus to ad a screen.
- Use the arrow keys to move to the choice you desire, then press Enter or RETURN to select it and zoom into that mode. When you do boot into Mac OS X, you'll notice that there's a new hard disk on your desktop too, called 'NO NAME'.
And here it is, Windows running inside Mac OSX….
Here are some of the settings. As I said, I know nothing about windows so I just used all the ones it suggested.
Run Mac On Your Windows
Oh, and don't go with Vista, reports are it's a mess. You can buy Windows XP second hand off ebay. I got a Windows Professional Service Pack 2, whatever that means, for $115.
