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In Reply to: RE: Did anyone here ever run Bootcamp on a Mac for windows? posted by Michael Samra on February 24, 2015 at 14:09:04
I have some time ago. It worked as advertised 5 years ago and, knowing Apple, probably still does. You boot into the operating system you have selected as default but you can choose a different one by holding down the "option" key at boot up. Bootcamp provides all the drivers needed for the Mac hardware in Windows. If you have a single hard drive, you do need to partition your hard drive so you end up dedicating a portion of your hard drive to run windows. The Bootcamp installer allows you to do this "on the fly" so it shouldn't mess up your current MacOS drive.
I currently use a software package called Parallels that allows you to run other, non-MacOS operating systems as a virtual machine (VM) which I find much more useful. You don't need to reboot and you can have as many VMs as you want. Also, it's easy to clone a VM so you can create a copy so that if you completely mess up you can just delete it without having to go through the pain of reinstalling / patching. Downsides are relatively slow video performance, consumption of hard drive space, a need for lots of RAM and occasionally difficultly in interfacing odd hardware.
I'm curious. This being an older HP instrument, I assume it uses HP GPIB as it's interface for digital data. If so, how do you connect this to a PC?
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I heard about Parallels and the place I bought my first Imac and MacBook pro,they use Parallels.I was inquiring about it yesterday from school.
"If it measures good and sounds bad, it is bad; if it measures bad and sounds good, you have measured the wrong thing."
- Daniel R. von Recklinghausen
For VM's on my Mac Mini I use VirtualBox. Works well, easy to use and free. I've run various editions of Windows with this.
https://www.virtualbox.org/
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