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the-unko-lema
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I use bootcamp... its great.
I use it for gaming, an area that OSX really sucks at.
Bootcamp allows you to choose what operating system you boot into at startup; either windows or OSX (you can also use linux/vista)
When your booted into that OS, thats what it is... windows running on 'windows' hardware (assuming you have an intel mac)... therefor you can do everything you can with a windows machine including your programs- motorolla tools.
It works by dividing your hard drive into two, one side OSX, the other Windows (or whatever). Within OSX you can trasfer files to the windows side easily- the drive will appear on your desktop, and you just copy/paste or drag files in.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
-download the file, install, run the app and it will guide you through the process of dividing up your hard drive, creating a driver cd (hardware drivers for windows), and then will allow you to boot off a disk- insert your copy of windows xp, and thats when it gets tricky- make sure you install onto the right HD, I recommend you know how to install windows first
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I use it for gaming, an area that OSX really sucks at.
Bootcamp allows you to choose what operating system you boot into at startup; either windows or OSX (you can also use linux/vista)
When your booted into that OS, thats what it is... windows running on 'windows' hardware (assuming you have an intel mac)... therefor you can do everything you can with a windows machine including your programs- motorolla tools.
It works by dividing your hard drive into two, one side OSX, the other Windows (or whatever). Within OSX you can trasfer files to the windows side easily- the drive will appear on your desktop, and you just copy/paste or drag files in.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
-download the file, install, run the app and it will guide you through the process of dividing up your hard drive, creating a driver cd (hardware drivers for windows), and then will allow you to boot off a disk- insert your copy of windows xp, and thats when it gets tricky- make sure you install onto the right HD, I recommend you know how to install windows first
... etc...jm1234567890
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I use parallels and it works fine for things like office and matlab, which aren't working so well in macosx right now.
www.parallels.com
As for mobile phone tools. It might work in parallels, it supports USB.
However, vmware is going to release another virtualisation software to compete with parallels soon. It seems to support more features.
www.vmware.com
www.parallels.com
As for mobile phone tools. It might work in parallels, it supports USB.
However, vmware is going to release another virtualisation software to compete with parallels soon. It seems to support more features.
www.vmware.com