Windows on a Mac?
Hey Brendan,
Am I right in believing that one of the features of Leopard is that I can run Windows on my Mac. I would love to be able to sync up my Blackberry with my Mac. Could I run windows on it, and sync it up that way?
In a perfect world I’d have an iPhone, unfortunately AT&T does not have a North American plan (as Verizon does) and if I switch then I have to pay 20 cents a minute to Canada (about 25% of my calls) and 35 cents a minute roaming when I am there (about 5-6 times a year). Not cool.
Yes, Sure thing, Leopard Users are able to Install Windows using a Technology called “Boot Camp”, just type that into spotlight and watch how straightforward the Mac makes it for you.
A few notes of caution though:
Using Boot Camp requires you to dedicate a portion of your Hard Drive space to it, you can choose that to be 5gb or bigger, but once you decide on it, it’s tricky to change, removing it entirely is really easy though, changing it, that’s the hard part.
Second, A piece of software called Parallels, $79, from Amazon or Apple, is my preferred method of running Windows, it runs on your mac desktop, in a window or Full screen, and you can drag and drop files between the Mac and Windows easily. The space taken up by Windows in this case can grow and shrink based on your needs, and, if you’re ever running low on disk space, or using a borrowed Mac, you can put the windows (parallels) file onto an external Hard drive and run it off of there. Also, your Time Machine backup will back up this Windows Image, whereas, under boot camp it won’t (remember Time Machine won’t give Windows the same nifty features, but it will backup the entire Windows ‘Installation’ hourly.
Thirdly, you may be able to sync your blackberry already using “Missing Sync” http://www.markspace.com/missingsync_blackberry.php, Palm and Blackberry owners I know love this software.
Hope this all helps, I sympathize with the difficulty of getting an iPhone, it’s a shame AT&T doesn’t offer something for folks who travel a lot between US and Canada, there’s lots of y’all I think!