Anyone running windows on a Mac?

[joshread]

I want to try running windows (probably XP) on my MacBook but I dont know how well it will run and how much its going to cost?

Is anyone else running windows on their mac? What are the pros and cons?

Thanks

 

[joshread]

Just googled it, looks like I will need to buy XP which is £60 then VMware Fusion 2 which is another £45.

 

[Brown.]

'Parrallels' is the only way to do it properly, VM ware is freeware and a good substitute but mouse is a little slow.....

i run XP and VISTA on my 2.2 intel mac (last of the plastic bodied white macs)

any more help you need, pm me also i can show you where to get it free

http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/pd40_tutorial-en_US/

 

[dwjeviltwin]

You can also run it under Bootcamp, which just requires a re-boot whenever you want to use windows.
But this way it does use all the hardware natively, under Parrallels and VM Fusion, most of the hardware is run under emilation, so could be a bit slow depending upon what programs you want to run in windows. These will also allow you to run any linux buils as a virtual machine as well.

 

[Soph]

I run XP with parallels. I haven't found it slow and I use Illustrator on it.

 

[meady100]

Parallels works beyond immaculately for me. It even lets you run Windows on a different screen, inside a window, or in coherence mode, whereby Windows applications just run on the OSX desktop. It's very impressive!

 

[joshread]

I've downloaded parallels, and going to get hold of xp thanks to big_peaches

Will hopefully have it all up and running soon.