[muglo] Re: Inatalling Windows XP on MacBook Pro w/Mac OS 10.6.4

  • From: Bob McDaniel <rmcdaniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:35:23 -0400

Dean
"Playing games" is the ultimate aim because the reason my grandson is learning 
Virtual Basic (mentioned in a previous post) is to program video games. 
Admittedly it'll be a while before he is pressing the computer to its limit. 
Thanks for the tip on VirtualBox which I shall look into.
Bob

On 2010-06-28, at 3:16 PM, Dean Danis wrote:
> 
> This may seem like a dumb question, but why do you need to use Boot Camp? 
> Normally I would only suggest using that if you need to run a Windows OS that 
> needs to take full advantage of the hardware. Like for playing games. If you 
> are planning on using Windows for email, or Microsoft Office, then I would 
> suggest using VirtualBox instead. It's free and works very will. It will run 
> Windows 7 in a virtual environment inside your Mac OS. It's the best of both 
> worlds rather than having to restart the computer into Windows.
> 
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
> 

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