{"id":164,"date":"2008-01-24T14:50:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T04:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/01\/24\/how-did-i-install-windows-xp-on-my-macbook\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T04:50:23","slug":"how-did-i-install-windows-xp-on-my-macbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/2008\/how-did-i-install-windows-xp-on-my-macbook\/","title":{"rendered":"How did I install Windows XP on my Macbook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/vmware_osxnxp.jpg' title='VMware OSX Leopard and XP Home'><img src='http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/vmware_osxnxp.thumbnail.jpg' alt='VMware OSX Leopard and XP Home' \/><\/a><br \/>\nHow did I run Windows XP on my Mac? <\/p>\n<p>Although running OSX Leopard I have a ton of programs collected in Windows over the years.  Since I still use quite a few of them and do not want to spend more money replacing them &#8211; the solution was to either: <\/p>\n<p>Use Bootcamp so the Mac can boot up to Windows XP<br \/>\nOR use Virtualisation software to run Windows XP.<\/p>\n<p>I chose to use Virtualisation software, namely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/fusion\/\">VMware Fusion<\/a> to do it for me.<br \/>\nYou could also try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/\">SWSOFT Parallels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/features\/bootcamp.html\">Bootcamp<\/a> is NOT the same thing. <\/p>\n<p>As I said previously I wanted to be able to use the best Mac software while continue to use familiar Windows software at the same time.  Besides Solitaire isn&#8217;t included on a Mac!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did I run Windows XP on my Mac? Although running OSX Leopard I have a ton of programs collected in Windows over the years. Since I still use quite a few of them and do not want to spend more money replacing them &#8211; the solution was to either: Use Bootcamp so the Mac [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-computers","category-computers","category-vmware-fusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}