Can I run windows on my iMac 20"

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For some software I want to run which is made or pc's only at this time, can I run windows on my iMac? I'm currently running OSX Tiger 10.4.11 If I can, will it negitively affect my performance I now enjoy. Thanks in advance.
 
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Mac Mini Core i7 2012 | White 2009 MacBook 2 Ghz | 733 Mhz G4 Quicksilver
is it an intel mac
 
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I haven't figured out everything quite yet but I've got Windoze 98 running on my imac (running OSx 10.4) by running VMWare's Fusion. All my Windows programs run perfectly and when Fusion is not running (and even when it is!) there's no effect on the mac side.
 
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stemo99 said:
Yes it's a 2.16 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
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If you upgrade to leopard then you can use Bootcamp to run windows (from apple - comes with Leopard)

If you want to stay with tiger then VM fusion and parallels are your options: you will have to purchase a windows XP disk as well though
 
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OK, thanks for the input. Now gotta decide which way to go, probably leopard. Thanks again.
 

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