Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

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Well_is_it in reply to @skinny

If I'm understanding you correctly, you could run windows in a virtual machine using VMware, parralels or virtualbox (free) and just have the windows install on the hard drive.
That way, you'd be running it from within OS X.

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skinny in reply to @Well_is_it

Yeah you understand my thought. Thanks. Yeah but I need to run Auto CAD, 3D modelling and math matrix software, so it's kind of intensive. Not something I want to do in a virtual machine.

I guess the best option is to run windows on a partition and then just access documents on the mac to edit, I'll just get Office on there too, then I can do reports on windows and not really use Mac OS.

I wondered if it was possible to swap (without shutting down) between 2 operating systems running simultaneously, on the same laptop.

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chrisbmx116 in reply to @skinny

From what I understand, which isn't a lot, nope. A motherboard can only run one bios thing at a time which means one OS.

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