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[Bruce G. Hooke]

I don't have hands on experience, but since I mostly use WinXP and 
occasionally a Mac (G4), I have been investigating this issue with the 
idea of possibly going that route.

There are numerous reviews on the web (you can Google to find them) of 
WinXP running on Intel Macs, and it works quite well, as is confirmed by 
my nephew, who runs both WinXP and Linux on his MacBook Pro.

There are currently two ways to go: You can use Apple's BootCamp and 
boot either into OS-X or WinXP, which gives the best performance, but 
does not allow you to go from one to another without rebooting, or you 
can use Parallels for Mac, a virtual machine that lets you run WinXP in 
an OS-X window. Parallels is new and supposedly has some rough spots.

VMware, the leading virtualization software company for Intel platforms 
is currently beta testing VMware Workstation for Mac OS-X. I use VMware 
Workstation extensively on PCs and expect Workstation for Mac OS-X to be 
the way to go when it comes out, probably by the end of the year.

That said, I personally do not intend to buy an Intel Mac until they 
start using Intel Core 2 chips in them, which should be in early 2007. 
The reason is that the Core 2 chips provide hardware virtualization 
support which means that running a virtual WinXP machine in an OS-X 
window will be much more efficient than with software virtualization.

Jan Werner
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> Does anyone have any experience running WinXP on an Intel Mac?
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> I would like to replace my Dell, which I only use once a week or so. I 
> primarily work on Mac, but need a computer running WinXP for proofing 
> site designs and running MS only software, such as FrontPage and Visual 
> Studio.
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> Thanks,
> Peter Hutchins
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