Boot Camp is still available in public beta: http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ It will be incorporated as a part of the OS by default when the next major version of Mac OS X ships ("Leopard").
Win XP is still available from retailers, but you'll have to search for that. To use Boot Camp effectively, 2G RAM should be a minimum. I don't know what kind of AV program she's looking for, whether she wants it to run in the Mac OS X or Win environment, or what AGV is ... Godfrey On Jun 27, 2007, at 7:54 AM, David J Brooks wrote: > Sorry for the OT, but I said i would ask, as i know a few people use > the dual system. I forget who they were, other wize i would have > done a > PM. > > I think she is asking if XP is still available, can she install that > instead of Vista. And she will need Bootcamp or the other program to > switch correct. > I know she will need to get an AV program etc. I'll sugesst AGV i > think it is, the free one. Folks here seem to like it. > > Barb has the macbook laptop. Not sure of speed HD etc but its only 6 > months old if that. > > Dave > > >> <quote>Alistair added Microsoft for Mac so I can do some work >> stuff on >> Word, Excel etc. >> >> I do have 1 problem. I'm a bit addicted to certain game types and 99% >> of them are for Microsoft only. Can I download Windows to the Mac? Is >> that when I need that pirate or whatever it is to switch back and >> forth? Will it take up a lot of space (wouldn't get Vista)?</end >> quote> > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
