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need help putting xp on a mac
Grasshopper:
--- Quote from: polaris on September 16, 2008, 03:26:13 pm ---just tried to do this but they said my copy was only for the pc it was sold with and cant be transferred, ill have to try and find a new copy of xp :(
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It's crap like this that makes me glad that Linux is finally gaining ground. Actually it's crap like this that is helping Linux to gain ground.
No other industry is able to get away with this nonsense. Just imagine, for instance, that a record company sold DVDs that were only licenced to work in one type of DVD player. It would be ridiculous and no one in their right mind would buy the DVDs. However M$ gets away with it because they have a de facto monopoly.
Malenko:
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on September 16, 2008, 04:36:50 pm ---
It's crap like this that makes me glad that Linux is finally gaining ground. Actually it's crap like this that is helping Linux to gain ground.
No other industry is able to get away with this nonsense. Just imagine, for instance, that a record company sold DVDs that were only licenced to work in one type of DVD player. It would be ridiculous and no one in their right mind would buy the DVDs. However M$ gets away with it because they have a de facto monopoly.
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the makers of his PC paid m$ for a bulk license, so they inferred some of the cost of the OS. Go buy a mac, and take the OSX discs you get, put them in your PC and tell me if it installs.
Grasshopper:
--- Quote from: Malenko on September 16, 2008, 05:06:51 pm ---the makers of his PC paid m$ for a bulk license, so they inferred some of the cost of the OS. Go buy a mac, and take the OSX discs you get, put them in your PC and tell me if it installs.
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Oh Apple are just as bad, or at least they would be if they could get away with it. But they don't have M$'s overwhelming market share (and thus de facto monopoly) so it's easy to avoid buying Apple products (which I do).
MinerAl:
I think it has to be XP SP2 on the install disk. SP1 then upgrade on the Mac isn't an option for some reason.
Blanka:
Do you need to run Bootcamp (don't see the word here, but that is the only program picky on your service pack and only runs on a genuine XP SP2 disc)?
I would go for the free Virtual Box and run XP in a virtualisation shell.
Or if you need DirectX emulation, try Parallels.
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