Re: Win XP Pro on Apple iMac Intel Dual Core
- From: "GreenieLeBrun" <GreenieLeBrun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 27 Sep 2006 15:31:53 -0700
sylvester_k wrote:
Hi,
thanks for for your info.
Do you actually require the Retail XP pro ?
How about the OEM XP pro? is it OK ?
OEM XP pro is cheaper over here.
"GreenieLeBrun" wrote:
sylvester_k wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the info,
How about the Virtual PC software for iMac ?
Is this Virtual PC software from microsoft ?
I need to run some specific software programs
(only for XP OS not iMac OS), but need the make use
of the iMac look to achieve a visual impact
for my shop. So basically i only need the iMac
design but not cannot use the iMac OS because
my software is running on XP OS.
I also need to run Window media player.
Any suggestion ?
Thanks
"Robert Moir" wrote:
sylvester_k wrote:
Hi all,
Do any one have experience installing Win XP pro and also
Shared Computer Toolkit on iMac Intel Dual Core ?
Wil there be any potential problem ?
This is because I will want this iMac to link up
with and Intel PC via wireless network.
Presumably you're talking about dual booting with BootCamp? In this
scenario, when running Windows, you're running it on a PC as far as the OS
and the apps on top of it are concerned.
Can anyone provide the web link for this info ?
Not sure what you're after here. If you're after some kind of guarantee from
Apple that this will work perfectly, you won't get one because they don't
support Windows and BootCamp is 'beta' software.
--
Robert Moir
Microsoft MVP
www.robertmoir.com
Virtual PC is a Microsoft program and it will run XP on a G5 Mac (I
don't have a core dou machine but I assume it will run on them). Anoter
virtual machine package that I have seen in action is Parallels
(http://www.parallels.com/) this runs XP very quicly on the Intel
core-duo macs.
You may like to consider Boot Camp from Apple, this is not a virtual
machine but a true dual boot set up so you get either XP or OSX. This
is probably what you are after.
If you do not want your employee to be able to "surf the net" from OSX
set it up with one user and password protect it (you may also like to
password protect the root account of OSX), set the machine to boot to
XP and apply what ever security levels you require.
You will, of course, require a retail copy of XPSP2.
OEM XP Pro should work OK, I specified the retail version because I
have no idea as to what the legality of using an OEM version on a Mac
would be, I would assume that if you bought an OEM version from the Mac
dealer when you bought the core-duo you would be OK.
One thing it MUST be Service Pack 2 and you will need to do the
security updates. You may like to look at RyanVM's Windows XP Post-SP2
Update Pack (http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/updatepack.html) this will let
you slipstream a number of the updates to your copy of XP thus cutting
down the time needed for installing the patches that MS have released.
.
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