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 Or give it away, sell it on ebay, or properly recycle it, whatever. You may have heard the news? You can now install Windows XP on a MacBook Pro, intel iMac, or intel Macmini. This is done through Bootcamp. Apple anounced their Public Beta of Bootcamp on April 5th. I am not advocating filling up landfill with Dell, HP, and other desktops and laptops. However if you have that one or two applications that requires Windows XP, this is a great stop gap solution for you. Of if you just missed Solitaire, Pinball and Minesweeper.... If you do install Bootcamp and Windows XP, your Windows partition (part of your hard drive) will be just as vunerable to malware, viruses, trojans, etc as any old PC. So please at the very least you will want install an anti-virus solution like McAffee or Norton AntiVirus. Also I must stress, this is Public Beta Software. That mean it can go POOF, have issues, cause other issues on your machine. You are running this at your own risk, there are already reports of some people mistakenly taking out their main Mac partition. Backing up prior to installing Bootcamp is a serious must. That being said the perfomance on an intel iMac or MacBook Pro is quite exciting. At the same time there are some interesting developments in virtualization. Virtualization is where you running more than one operating system at a time on your machine. For instance running Linux on a machine that would primarily run Windows XP or Mac OS X. There are some exciting developments from multiple companies in this area. Again just like Bootcamp these are Beta software. Basically that means don't run it on your main production machine. If you do, you really are doing this at your own risk. If you would like to discuss this further please feel free to give Doug a call. |
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