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Apple are mean and keep their OS to themselves, meaning they can sell computers at a premium. But what if I bought an Apple Mac, partitioned the hard drive, could I buy and install vista or xp on he partition?? Thanks for your help, Ollie....


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Old 21st Sep 2008, 10:53
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Default Dual booting Vista & OS X ??

Apple are mean and keep their OS to themselves, meaning they can sell computers at a premium.

But what if I bought an Apple Mac, partitioned the hard drive, could I buy and install vista or xp on he partition??

Thanks for your help, Ollie.
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as far as i know they use different processor arciectures so it is impossible to run osx on a pc or win xp on a mac. however you can emulate a forign os within the computers native os but at the cost of allot of speed.
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No. All Macs made in the last few years use Intel Core 2s. They are no different from any other computer.
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here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41Z0FJYBd5U

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Default Dual booting Vista & OS X ??

So if I create a partition on my Hard drive i can install OS X?
Or will it not work on a partition?
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