From: "Glenn Meadows" 

I think Bootcamp is a free download, but Parallels is a separate purchase
(3rd party developer).

Check out their website, I think there is a free demo of Parallels available.

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Glenn M.
"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> 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...
>
>
> 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.
>>
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>> Glenn M.
>> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
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>>> 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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