Dual Boot?

BoA · Dec 14, 2005

Is it possible to dual boot Tiger and XP on a mac ?

D3v1L80Y · Dec 14, 2005

Simple.
No

BoA · Dec 14, 2005

Thought so.

New question:
If I buy a refurb laptop mac could I install XP on it instead of OSX ? Or would it be better to just by a Dell/HP etc. ?

rman · Dec 14, 2005

The only way you will be able to run any M$ OS on an Apple product at this time is by using virtualPC.

D3v1L80Y · Dec 14, 2005

BoA said:
Thought so.

New question:
If I buy a refurb laptop mac could I install XP on it instead of OSX ?

No.
And anyway, what the heck is the point of buying a Mac, to only install Windows on it?

Just get a PC if you really want or need Windows.

BoA · Dec 14, 2005

D3v1L80Y said:
No.
And anyway, what the heck is the point of buying a Mac, to only install Windows on it?

Just get a PC if you really want or need Windows.

I have XP only programs and sites I need to use,
and I like the look and quality of the Apple computers.

Does anyone know why an XP cd won't load in an apple computer ?

schweb · Dec 14, 2005

Because Macs use PowerPC chips and XP is written for Intel chips. Totally different architectures.

macAttack · Dec 14, 2005

beacuse they weren't built with the same archecture, and are writtin in different languages (thats the simple version) why do you think they OS are differnt?

mynameis · Dec 14, 2005

BoA said:
Does anyone know why an XP cd won't load in an apple computer ?

Different hardware architecture. If you would have waited for the new Intel Macs, you would have been able to dual boot.

If you really needed Windows XP, you should have thought about that before buying an Apple. You can find really nice PC hardware out there if you are willing to spend the money, example Lenovo laptops.