Bootable optical media (CD or DVD) on Macs equipped with Apple’s Super Drive or a USB thumb drive formatted with a GUID partition type and containing a macOS installer or a usable operating system.Īpple advises against booting from external storage containing a version of macOS earlier than the one your Mac shipped with. So contrary to the other poster's comment, Boot Camp isn't truly "free." You must purchase Leopard or Snow Leopard to get it.Starting up your Mac from an external disk requires the following: The Boot Camp Beta that was used with Tiger has expired and is no longer available for use. Virtualization Benchmarking for comparisons of Boot Camp, Parallels, and VM Fusion.īoot Camp is only available with Leopard or Snow Leopard. The latter tend to be a little slower (not much) and do not provide the video performance of the dual-boot system. There are performance differences between dual-boot systems and virtualization. Note that Parallels and VM Fusion can also run other operating systems such as Linux, Unix, OS/2, Solaris, etc. It is much slower than the virtualization software, Parallels and VM Fusion. Q is a freeware emulator that is compatible with Intel Macs. It is not as fully developed for the Mac as Parallels and VM Fusion. VirtualBox is a new Open Source freeware virtual machine such as VM Fusion and Parallels that was developed by Solaris. The Windows applications can run concurrently with OS X. VM Fusion is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X.ĬrossOver which enables running many Windows applications without having to install Windows. VM Fusionand Windows XP, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, or Windows 7. Parallels is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X. Parallels Desktop for Mac and Windows XP, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, or Windows 7. 
Boot Camp enables you to boot the computer into OS X or Windows.
Follow instructions in the Boot Camp documentation on installation of Boot Camp, creating Driver CD, and installing Windows. Purchase Windows XP w/Service Pak 2, Vista or Windows 7. There are presently several alternatives for running Windows on Intel Macs.Īpple Boot Camp software.
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