From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

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
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>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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