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From: RobertB 

In article ,
 "Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote:

> Are Boot Camp / Parallels sold separately or included in the box with the
> computer? XP obviously needs to be bought separately, but I've got an MS
> partnet subscription where I get a bunch of licenses, so I'm guite tempted
> to get a mac and give it a go...

BootCamp is a free download. Parallels is commercial software. Costs
$80.

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>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:458f0c0d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >2 main ways are Boot Camp from Apple, which is a boot time decision to run
> >either OSX or Windows XP Sp2, or Parallels Desktop, which is a
> >virtualization scheme, that runs other Intel OS's inside OSX.  It's not
> >just limited to Windows, it will run Windows, Linux, Novell, Dos, OS/2,
> >etc. Check out Parallels, it's a nice alternative.
> >
> > Just announced, is VMWare for OSX I believe, that if I recall what I read,
> > will allow drag/drop of folders between the two desktops for data
> > interchange.
> >
> > The new Parallels now supports USB2 in the virtual machines, as well.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Glenn M.
> > "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
> > news:458f004c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> Well that is good to know.  Maybe one day I'll give them a better look
> >> versus and intel machine with Linux.  What are the two ways to run
> >> windows programs on Macs?
> >>
> >> Gary

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