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Posted on February 7th, 2006 By Melinda Chiu

Run Windows XP on Mac
Ever since the day Apple launched the Intel-Base MacBook Pro, most of the people around the world are so interested in getting their Microsoft Windows XP to run on Mac, Intel-Base Mac only. As for what most people also know that both the application or software are actually running on a different hardware requirements. As for some website did mentioned that Mac can’t boot using a Microsoft Windows XP or the other way round, XP can’t boot on Mac because of certain file-systems. Some website even offer to those that have any clitch of idea that can make Windows XP boot or Dual boot on the new Intel-Base MacBook Pro for a prize of rewarding cash from $100 - $3000 above. This really a good challenge, and all you need to do is, make sure your idea proof that it will work. Well, i am not sure about that cause i, myself was a Microsoft user and never had touch on Apple before, even for our XBlog’s David, his knowledge on Mac Stuff, well.. i’ll give him a 30% of knowledge base on Mac thing.

Great, this is my second post on XBlog, and hopefully it will help some of those around reading this blog. I am taking in charge of this blog for at least 2 weeks, David are having his Chinese New Year Holiday .. How come he gets all the fun, and i had to do the job search post stuff. Yeah, this news about install Windows XP on Mac thing, i have to look around or google around for information. What to do? A job is a job. Here’s some snacks that i found out while googling around. Before posting this, i did get a permission from David whether is it ok to post or write on this blog about this, and what he answer me was “ok..good..go ahead”. So no clue whether other already know about this whether this is a true facts or really does work. I also no clue at all. I did read some information from a website that xblog had mentioned about they have a guide on how to install Windows XP on Mac and also i did went another website that is refering that Mac are indeed unable to run Windows XP because of file system differences. Here’s the snack. Anyone might have known about this software (except me) its called OpenOSX Wintel for Mac OS X, the name Wintel sound familiar, i think i heard about the name somewhere or some hardware name.

This is how its looks like once you have installed it.

Experience full-compatibility with x86/PentiumÂ® processors with disk images, CD-ROM support and much more on your Mac.

WinTel is our popular Cocoa graphical user interface used to control the included powerful underlying open-source “Bochs” x86 emulation software (Bochs is pronounced as Box). We now include both PowerPC and Intel optimized binaries.
We have successfully tested this version of WinTel/Bochs running Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows XP Professional in addition to the included ten ready-to-use operating systems (see below).
WinTel offers limited support for the following: a virtual Network Interface Card (NIC), “Sound Blaster” compatible card, USB, and 32-bit color SVGA Video.
A CD-ROM drive is supported and floppy disk support may be achieved by creating a disk image with Apple’s Disk Utility software. Use the Finder to transfer data between the emulator and the Mac OS X operating system.

Information from OpenOSX

On their homepage they have a very detail guide through on how to use the software and also on how to install Windows XP on the Mac. Best part is, their homepage design is actually really close to an Apple Homepage.

You can view the full product information on their website here : OpenOSX Run Windows XP on Your Mac

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