Mac

[Shriike]

Rather then getting a brand new laptop at the begining of the year (as I had planned) I opted to instead borrow my mom's, well the battery doesn't last long enough so now I have to buy a new laptop anyways, a couple of my friends have been trying to talk me into a mac (I need a windows platform for some games, and software and whatnot) well they told me about this boot camp or whatever it's called windows emulator wanted to know if anyone had any problems, or if it works good or whatever.

[blkmage]

Boot Camp is not an emulator. Basically, it's a way for you to dualboot Windows and OS X.

[Icarus]

link

Boot Camp actually repartitions your hard disk to make room for the Windows install, which means it's more a boot loader than an emulator.

[Mithrandir]

Be sure to research "parallels." That acutally lets you run the Windows OS at the same time as the Mac OS.

[Ryupower]

maybe they're talking about Darwine ? Which is a project on getting windows applications running on mac and BSD.

My suggestion:
See if there's any way to dual boot Mac, if yes, then,


step 1: Buy a computer from apple. Having mac on it.
step 2: Try to install windows on it.
step 3: DUAL BOOT!
step 4: USE BOTH!

not completely fool proof, remember, you NEED to find out if Windows can run with a PowerPC processor. And also ( IMPORTANT! ) if there's any way to dual boot a mac!

Edit: dual booting on macs WORKS! Atleast on intel macs, just check. Oh yeah, the other's already mentioned that. lol.

[Icarus]

Just remember that Windows does not play nice with other OS's filesystems, so if you're going to dual boot, make sure that you make room for it on your hard drives. It is imperative that you remember which partitions you created for it, because if it ain't FAT or NTFS, MS claims it's free space.