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    Painless windows install on tiger?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Yamaha, Jun 7, 2008.

  1. Yamaha

    Yamaha Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all,
    Sorry for bringing this subject up for the hundredfiftyetheleventh time,
    But as you know things change fast.. or do they?

    I´ve postponed an inevitable installation of windows (xp) on my MBP with tiger now for ages.

    How do i do this as painless as possible?

    With so much rumours circulating about leopard i'm not sure it´s worth an upgrade just to get to boot camp. (And im sick of raising hell because cheap ass apple and the bc beta story.) anyway, I hear both paralells and fusion are better options than bc..

    so, whats the winning combo?
    leopard / fusion?
    tiger / paralells?

    Easy, safe and clean would be the ideal scenario.

    Obviously id prefer not to spend a load of money on it but if it saves me a lot of headache, yes, il just go by leopard.


    Thanks guys..
     
    Yamaha, Jun 7, 2008
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  2. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    Fusion is very good if you want to run Windows alongside OS X. Parallels has a few more features than Fusion, but it tends to crash more often and is potentially unsafe (in terms of access permissions and data integrity etc.).
    Installing Windows on both is easy.

    For more info check the sticky: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=145917
     
    Budding, Jun 7, 2008
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