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Old December 26th 06, 01:11 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Tim
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Hi

I'm hoping the gurus still hang out in here like they used to :-)

I've been looking at getting a laptop and am sorely tempted by a MacBook Pro
17" for it's looks and light weight for the size.

One thing I can't seem to find is if there is a way you can load win XP on
the thing on it's own or if you need to load an Apple OS in first and piggy
back XP off of that - my google skills seem weak as I can't seem to find a
definitive answer - I'm hoping there's a kludge somewhere - either that or
does this combination work ok without a big performance hit

TIA for any pointers

Tim
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Old December 26th 06, 07:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
MalcolmO
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I'd say, get the MacBook Pro, by all means!

if there is a way you can load win XP on
the thing on it's own or if you need to load an Apple OS in first and piggy
back XP off of that


You can do that very simply with Apple's (free) Boot Camp:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

It's even more satisfying (and capable) to do it with Parallels Workstation:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...rkstation.html

Parallels will work with more operating systems and other versions of
Windows. Besides, you can drag and drop between environments. With Boot
Camp, you can only use XP and have to reboot to access the Mac
resources. This is likely to be a better choice for Windows games. But
Parallels is probably more satisfying for other uses.

Me, I use a PPC iMac. :/

But really for info of this sort, it really pays to access the Mac
newsgroups.
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Old December 26th 06, 09:32 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Tim
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Default Help with laptop choice please

I'd say, get the MacBook Pro, by all means!

if there is a way you can load win XP on
the thing on it's own or if you need to load an Apple OS in first
and piggy back XP off of that


You can do that very simply with Apple's (free) Boot Camp:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

It's even more satisfying (and capable) to do it with Parallels
Workstation:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...rkstation.html

Parallels will work with more operating systems and other versions of
Windows. Besides, you can drag and drop between environments. With
Boot Camp, you can only use XP and have to reboot to access the Mac
resources. This is likely to be a better choice for Windows games. But
Parallels is probably more satisfying for other uses.

Me, I use a PPC iMac. :/

But really for info of this sort, it really pays to access the Mac
newsgroups.



Thank you for the help Malcolm

Which NG to post in was a bit of a coin toss, could get flammed some in Mac
groups, last time I was in the XP groups they were just bear pits, and I've
posted here in the past and found great people prepared to help so this one
it was!

Thanks for the info - I'd googled a bit and seemed to be going in circles a
bit - didn't really help not knowing quite what to look for - Reading up on
Boot Camp and PW should do the trick

Best regards

Tim
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Old December 27th 06, 06:40 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
MalcolmO
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Default Help with laptop choice please

Thank you for the help Malcolm

My pleasure, Tim. I want to get a MacBook Pro too and put my 98SE
environment into Parallels.

I don't think you'll catch any flames for raising these issues in the
Mac groups.
 




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