Before my friend purchases a new Mac, I have a question about Windows

[Turkish]

So far my research points me to conclude that new Macbooks can run Windows XP without a problem, am I right? He wants to buy a MAC and have double boot just in case he has to use any software that is Windows-only. Can anyone who has a Mac with Windows confirm this? Many thanks

Edit: I just saw there's an Apple forum. I don't remember ever seeing it before but sorry for posting this in the wrong forum.

 

[Hyperblaze]

As far as I am aware, I do not believe that there is any operating system out there that can run on a PC without any problems.

You can get close with various operating system, but you still run into various problems here and there.

 

[nerp]

Chances are you can run XP on it with the right drivers. Apple's hardware use intel chipsets, etc.

Vista should be able to install without much driver searching, moreso than XP. In either case it would be fine as long as your driver situation is settled properly.

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: Turkish
So far my research points me to conclude that new Macbooks can run Windows XP without a problem, am I right? He wants to buy a MAC and have double boot just in case he has to use any software that is Windows-only. Can anyone who has a Mac with Windows confirm this? Many thanks

Edit: I just saw there's an Apple forum. I don't remember ever seeing it before but sorry for posting this in the wrong forum.

a new mac will run vista and xp perfect using bootcamp or parallels, parallels is really cool as it emulates and runs the windows programs in the mac OS. check it out

But macs are no longer different than pcs, they all have the same hardware, but usually a bit older hardware than say a new dell. IE apple will use older versions of wireless cards, network cards adn that type of thing. They still have the same cpu though.

Also there is zero driver searching...

 

[MedicBob]

There can be quite a bit of tweaking needed to get Vista running exactly the same as on a PC. I recently installed Vista on a MacBook Pro, there are some issues. Power options are not working, the computer does not stand-by or hibernate. You need to get most drivers from the Mac disk that should be with the Mac.

 

[TheEarthWillShake]

I'm running Windows XP Pro on my Macbook and it runs awesome.

You need Leopard disc to install the driver set from Apple to get full control from the keyboard.

 

[Turkish]

Thanks guys. He wants to install Xp on it and it seems like he'll be able to do it (even if by some tweaking).

Many thanks to you all.

 

[Parasitic]

x64 can be kinda tricky with bootcamp. You'll have to lift the drivers from a Mac Pro disc or use torrent.