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We have a lot of Macs in PC Labs, but we also like Windows. So what could be better than getting them all mixed up?

Check out the pictures below or return to the main story about booting Windows XP on a Mac.

All four Macs together

From left to right: an iMac 20" running Windows XP, a MacBook Pro running XP, a Mac Mini running XP, and an iMac G5 20" running OS X 10.4. The XP machines are connected to the OS X machine using the VNC remote desktop software, and have the OS X desktop open as a window in XP.

3 WinXP Macs running VNC

A slightly better zoom on our XP Macs, showing the Start menu on each one.

iMac 20 running XP + VNC

The screen of our iMac 20", with a VNC window showing the OS X connection and the Start menu showing that yes, this is Windows XP.

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Posted by: Bela
March 22, 2006 3:25 PM

I totally like your idea and professional solution! But one thing I don't see is why you want to access a Mac over VNC, while sitting in front of one. Is there any need of it for the benchmarks?


Posted by: psycho
March 23, 2006 2:02 AM

I guess they wanted to give the shot a touch of humor or what have you


Posted by: Siong
April 2, 2006 10:59 AM

if regular mouse on PCs has two buttons and and scroll wheel, and macs have only one button. how do u use the mac mouse on windows. same goes with Macbook pro.


Posted by: jostie
April 3, 2006 7:46 PM

I use a "pc" mouse on a mac G4 and the right button works the same as cntrl click with an apple mouse


Posted by: crags
April 6, 2006 3:22 PM

Apple released a 2 button scroll mouse almost a year ago that ships with all new desktops.


Posted by: JY
April 7, 2006 12:26 PM

What is the purpuse of doing this? Why someone will buy a mac to install windows Xp or event Vista? I don't understand.


Posted by: Ringo
April 21, 2006 1:57 PM

I think running xp on a mac, is cool, I don't like XP, but its here to stay, and now I can get windows games that will run better on mac hardware anyway, and run them earlier than waiting for mac games, mac default, the xp boot option, a secondary choice. cool. hopefully the intel chip will hold up, bye motorola.


Posted by: chris
April 25, 2006 4:53 PM

really cool, i want to get an iMac sometime. I hope windows vista will be able to run on the mac as well, that would be cool.


Posted by: M.G.S
February 2, 2008 1:53 PM

have u ever faced any problems while running windows xp on a mac computer?
i have a macbook pro and i was thinking of doing the same thing


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