From: Paul on
void.no.spam.com(a)gmail.com wrote:
> Could there be any possible issues with running Windows XP or 7 on a
> Mac? Or is Windows 100% compatible with Mac hardware?

Macintosh computers come in many flavors and generations. For
example, I have an old Quadra here, running a Motorola 68K
family processor. No, no version of Windows will install directly
on that. The driver situation would be a disaster (Nubus, not PCI).

On a later machine, a G4 (PowerPC processor), I run windows via
using Virtual PC for Macintosh. That works fine and allows running
a Windows OS in a standalone window. I run MacOS 9, MacOSX, and
Virtual PC for my other OS options.

The third generation of processors for Mac, is Intel.
(68K CISC, PowerPC RISC, Intel x86.) Since the Intel processor
is the same as the ones used on PCs, that should give you more
options for OSes. I think BootCamp, gives you dual booting.
Note they mention that BootCamp comes with drivers, which would
be an important component of installing an OS. Make sure
the driver support is there, for whatever OS you want
to use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software)

This one, allows running MacOSX and Windows at the same time.
I'm guessing this is similar to Virtual PC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallels_Desktop_for_Mac

It is also possible to run MacOSX for Intel, on top of PC
type equipment. There are lots of people out there
doing Hackintosh experiments, which you can find with
a search engine. They discuss which hardware platforms
are "good enough" to support booting either kind of OS.
So you can also do this kind of dual booting, in the
opposite direction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackintosh

Paul
From: Twayne on
In view of some of the silly and vague advice already given, I'd just like
to offer Paul a KUDOS for a clear, concise response to the OP.
If the OP doesn 't understand it all, and many people won't, at least
the words/components needed to do a search engine search are there for the
OP.
OP: Pay most attention to Paul's post; it's good.

Good job, Paul,

HTH,

Twayne`


n news:hri0p0$s61$1(a)speranza.aioe.org,
Paul <nospam(a)needed.com> typed:
> void.no.spam.com(a)gmail.com wrote:
>> Could there be any possible issues with running Windows XP
>> or 7 on a Mac? Or is Windows 100% compatible with Mac
>> hardware?
>
> Macintosh computers come in many flavors and generations.
> For example, I have an old Quadra here, running a Motorola
> 68K family processor. No, no version of Windows will install
> directly on that. The driver situation would be a disaster
> (Nubus, not PCI).
> On a later machine, a G4 (PowerPC processor), I run windows
> via using Virtual PC for Macintosh. That works fine and
> allows running a Windows OS in a standalone window. I run
> MacOS 9, MacOSX, and Virtual PC for my other OS options.
>
> The third generation of processors for Mac, is Intel.
> (68K CISC, PowerPC RISC, Intel x86.) Since the Intel
> processor is the same as the ones used on PCs, that should give you
> more options for OSes. I think BootCamp, gives you dual
> booting. Note they mention that BootCamp comes with drivers, which
> would be an important component of installing an OS. Make sure
> the driver support is there, for whatever OS you want
> to use.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software)
>
> This one, allows running MacOSX and Windows at the same
> time. I'm guessing this is similar to Virtual PC.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallels_Desktop_for_Mac
>
> It is also possible to run MacOSX for Intel, on top of PC
> type equipment. There are lots of people out there
> doing Hackintosh experiments, which you can find with
> a search engine. They discuss which hardware platforms
> are "good enough" to support booting either kind of OS.
> So you can also do this kind of dual booting, in the
> opposite direction.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackintosh
>
> Paul



From: Bud Vitoff on
On 5/1/10 10:11 AM, in article 842uk5F33eU1(a)mid.individual.net, "Bigguy"
<bigguy(a)under_radar.com> wrote:

> Main problem is the keyboard is missing some useful keys (page up/down)
> and the trackpad doesn't do right clicks...
>

I'm new to the Mac world, so I may be off base here, but ...

I have an iMac with OS X 10.6.3, and I can do page up/down using fn with
up/down arrows, and right-clicks using control-click.

FWIW, there's a scary list of Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts at

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343?viewlocale=en_US

From: graham on
On 2010-05-01 22:35:33 +0800, void.no.spam.com(a)gmail.com said:

> Could there be any possible issues with running Windows XP or 7 on a
> Mac? Or is Windows 100% compatible with Mac hardware?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software)
From: Bert Hyman on
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