Yes, and you'll find lots of comments in the mailing list archives about
it. There are two main ways - BootCamp and VMWare. Bootcamp lets you
divide up your hard drive into a mac and Windows partition then you
install Windows on its partition and then boot windows. It turns out
Macs make pretty fast Wintel boxes. This gets you the fastest Windows
performance but you have to reboot to switch between Mac and Windows
"mode". You also have to guess ahead of time how much disk space to
allocate between the two sides on your hard drive. VMWare lets you
create a "virtual machine" that looks like a generic PC to Windows but
is actually an app running under OSX. You have to buy VMWare and install
that, create the fake virtual machine and then install Windows onto that
virtual machine. The nice thing is when you need windows you launch
VMWare and your virtual machine. When you're done you just quit like any
other app. The Windows side creates a virtual C drive that is just a big
file on the Mac. You can tell VMWare to make it 100GB if you want but it
will only use as much space as is actually being used by the Windows
files. The downside is performance. For modern Macs this isn't a big
deal but running Windows on top of OSX is never going to be as fast as
running Windows directly on the hardware. So if you don't mind it being
a bit slower VMWare will get you a lot of flexibilty but you need
Windows to run as fast as possible then BootCamp will be your ticket.
Hope this helps.
CB
On 11/30/15 7:48 PM, Michelle's Home emails wrote:
Hi there,
Michelle here,
Can I have windows installed on my Mac? So can I have choice of two
operating systems? Because there are programmers which does not run
with Mac or voiceover that well which windows can handle.
Pardon my ignorance how is this done?
I would rather take to uni my Mac it weighs far less and is great on
the battery life, particularly if I want to study on my long journey
home which is about two to three hours train ride.
Michelle
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