New to apple and need info about windows on mac
Hey guys
Im planning on buying a mac within the next few months and I know that users are now able to have a windows partition on the mac. Does this allow the user to use server side programming languages etc on their macs as you would on a PC? or is there software that needs to be brought to be able to do this? How do you do the windows partition on a mac?
Any help would be great.
Thanks
Does this allow the
user to use server side programming languages etc on
their macs as you would on a PC?
Yes
or is there software
that needs to be brought to be able to do this?
Two choices
Boot Camp or Parallels
http://www.apple.com/bootcamp/
http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/
Note both choices require a full copy of WIndows.
How
do you do the windows partition on a mac?
Using the Boot Camp software.
iFelix
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