[jh0720]

would windows naturally install into a mbp and if so, would all XP programs work as well as it would work on a non-mac laptop?

for instance, would I have to use a program to install XP and then have it use only a limited amount of resources of the MBP (i.e. 1ghz of the cpu, 512mb of the ram, 64VRAM, etc.) and have it bottleneck the performance on XP?

[Cold Warrior]

Windows runs fully and capably on a MBP as if it were on a regular Dell or HP machine.

[The Placid Casual]

Using 'Bootcamp', it would partition the hard drive (you can select partition sizes etc), and then install Windows onto a second parition. You can only dual boot OS X/Windows, and not run both OSes simultaneously...

As for it being 'like' a windows machine, when you are booted in to the Windows Boot Camp partition, it *is* a proper, bona fide windows box.

If you want to have Windows in an emulated/dual boot environment, you'll need something like 'Parallels', but not used it since beta, so not sure how the set up works atm as to setting resource limits, but I am sure someone else can post the info

[jh0720]

so once i use bootcamp to partition my hard drives into one for OSX and one for windows, it would ask me which OS i want to boot into when i turn the MBP on, right?

and is bootcamp free or do i have to buy it?

thanks

[ghporter]

Boot Camp is included with Leopard (the latest version of Mac OS X). You can select which OS to boot into by default, and you can also choose on a boot-by-boot basis which one to boot for when you want the other one. Windows XP runs very well on my Core Duo 2.0GHz MBP. Hint: EVERYTHING runs better with more RAM. RAM is cheap right now-bulk up!