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Switching to a mac, what is Mac OS X & Boot camp?
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I am looking to purshase my fist mac laptob for college next year. I am leaning towards the Macbook. I would also like to install a recording program on this laptob (Cakewalk Sonar 8). However, on the box of this program it says that the operating system for a mac must be a Mac OS X with boot camp. I am not very familiar with mac computers, is Mac OS X an additional software that I will have to buy? What is boot camp?
Thanks.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Welcome to our forums.
OS X (pronounced "oh ess ten") is the operating system for Mac computers, much like Windows Vista or Windows XP is a PC operating system. Boot Camp is a dual boot system that Apple provides, allowing users to boot into Windows on their Mac computers.
I'm going to move your thread to the most appropriate forum, our "Alternative Operating Systems" forum, where you can get far better responses than in the current forum (which is all about Mac desktop computers).
Again, welcome!
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Are these additional softwares that i will need to purshase, or will boot camp and OS X already be in the standard Macbook?
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All you need is your own copy of Windows (XP SP2 or later). Then, you run a program called the Boot Camp Assistant (built in to OS X) to partition your hard drive, allocating part of the space for running Windows. The Assistant guides you through setting up this partition, rebooting your machine and installing Windows. Then you install Windows drivers from your Mac OS X install disk. At this point you are running Windows on a Mac just as if you were running Windows on a PC. You switch between running Mac OS X and Windows either at boot time by holding down a key ( the "option" key to select the OS X or the Windows partition) or by selecting the partition from the startup disk preferences (on the Mac side) or the Boot Camp control panel (on the Windows side).
Obviously, you have to reboot to make the switch. If you don't want to have to reboot every time, you can install "virtualization" software that runs Windows as an application while you are booted into Mac OS X. The most common products for this are Parallels (my favorite), VMWare Fusion, and Virtualbox (free). There's lots of information about all these options here in this forum and at the respective web sites. Just ask if you have more questions.
Steve
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