Apple & Windows

Started By Bent Club, Jun 10 2011 01:39 PM

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#1 Bent Club

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Posted 10 June 2011 - 01:39 PM

Can you install Xp as a second OS on a Apple ?

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Posted 10 June 2011 - 01:53 PM

They dropped support for XP using Boot camp , but there is a work around .
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3841
If you visit some of the Mac forums, there probably know some tricks to install XP.

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Posted 10 June 2011 - 02:24 PM

Thanks Jram

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Posted 10 June 2011 - 02:31 PM

I've installed WinXP on Intel-chipped MacBooks, both MacBook and MacBook Pro, using VMWare Fusion as the virtual PC interface. Parallels is another virtual PC program that can be used. Keep in mind it's best to have total RAM that includes the Mac OS requirement and the WinXP requirement.