From: "Glenn Meadows" 

I believe there is a trial version available as well.

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Glenn M.
"RobertB"  wrote in message
news:missinglink-0A9B93.11123126122006{at}news.barkto.com...
> 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.
>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> > 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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