Re: Windows XP on Apple

From: Ad (graphi47uk_at_y.a.h.o.o.co.uk)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:43:51 +0000

BAR wrote:
> OK all you nit picking twits. Given the nature of the question one need not

Oh lighten up, we are only pulling your leg.

> be so specific in a response. Given that the man has an Apple and wants to
> install Windows - in general - not possible in the manner suggested by The
> Undertaker.

>
> To be complete with the answer, Microsoft Windows XP as published for Intel
> [and Intel Compatible products, although one generally does not specifically
> state AMD as anyone with one day's experience in computers knows of this]

No, which is a problem, thhis really needs to be addresed, because I get
fed up of seeing Intel all over the place, so many pro_intel companies.
Take Dell for instance, they stick with a over priced chip.

> will not install or operate in the Apple Computer.

Nope.

> However, it is possible to Emulate Windows on a Mac with OSX: 'Virtual PC 7'
> works by emulating a Pentium-based Windows machine on your Mac. When you
> launch Virtual PC, the Windows OS appears inside a window on your Mac
> desktop.
>
> You can switch back and forth between your Mac OS and Windows as easily as
> you go between any two windows on your Mac desktop. Using Virtual PC, you can
> copy and paste text and graphics between Mac and Windows, and drag files and
> folders from one OS to the other.
>

But I bet it will be slow, very slow.
I got an emulator for the CBM 64 on my 2500 AMdxp it runs great, but on
my old 1Ghz system, it ran like a snail,
so an Apple running Xp will be like like running XP on a 233 I should
think :

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