Dual boot with MAC book (MAC/XP)?

TRBO VNM · 11-06-2009, 10:56 PM

I did a quick search but didn't find much. I will continue, but since I only found one thread about dual boot OS, maybe this actually has not been posted.

I was told by others in the past that they have put XP on a MAC to have a dual boot setup. I gotta get out of this damn dell and really want to try a MAC book out. But I have software that will only run in XP. So before I toss this dell in the garbage(j/j, need to sell to afford mac book), I just need to be sure that dual boot works fine with the new mac book and XP pro.

if so, I am golden and will use XP only for the programs I need.

thanks
Jason

Napoleon_PhoneApart · 11-06-2009, 10:58 PM

All Macs come with Boot Camp, which will let you dual boot. I just set up OSX and Windows 7 64-bit on my new Mac Mini yesterday and it works very well.

TRBO VNM · 11-06-2009, 11:01 PM

awesome. just what I needed to hear...read. lol

now I just need to sell this dell.

Napoleon_PhoneApart · 11-06-2009, 11:09 PM

I use the Windows 7 side to edit video and audio and make DVDs until I can find equivalent Mac apps. I'm definitely going to need a larger hard drive than 160GB, though!

TRBO VNM · 11-06-2009, 11:13 PM

yeah, I was going to upgrade the hard drive and I think something else and online it was just under $1400. that includes the additional warranty.

I need to call apple and ask what the difference is with it and the mac book pro. I can probably just read up on it, but figured I would call them direct and ask.

but looking at the pro, the features look the same, but the unit is more expensive.

styfle · 11-06-2009, 11:13 PM

Yeah there are MANY options if you want to run windows. You can use bootcamp, you can use parallels which will run the a specific windows program as if it was a native Mac program. Theres a software called crossover which is similar but is a windows emulator for a specific program. For example, if you have a .exe crossover will install it for you (similar to WINE for linux). Then you could just use a basic virtual machine like virtualbox (which is probably gonna be the slowest but you pretty much can't screw up your mac that way) which you boot after you already booted your mac. It will just run windows in its own window.

I hope that helped a little lol.

TRBO VNM · 11-06-2009, 11:28 PM

yeah, helps a lot. thank you.

acosmichippo · 11-07-2009, 03:33 AM

Originally Posted by Napoleon_PhoneApart

I use the Windows 7 side to edit video and audio and make DVDs until I can find equivalent Mac apps. I'm definitely going to need a larger hard drive than 160GB, though!

iMovie and iDVD not enough for you?

s8n666 · 11-07-2009, 03:50 AM

The only difference between the MacBook and the MacBook Pro is white plastic case on the MacBook and the aluminum case on the Pro.

acosmichippo · 11-07-2009, 07:43 AM

if you mean the very basic model macbook pro, yes, that is basically the only difference. However, there are much more powerful versions of the mackbook pro that include additional graphics power, processing power, RAM, etc.