once you boot xp on

[paulct]

the mac- you can use any program that will work on a regular pc?

[MacBoobsPro]

the mac- you can use any program that will work on a regular pc?

If its done using BootCamp then yes. The hardware is the same as a PCs (except put together better).

[paulct]

someone in my class told me the gis graphing and mapping program wont work on it - i was just checking

[mkrishnan]

someone in my class told me the gis graphing and mapping program wont work on it - i was just checking

With Bootcamp, once you load Windows, it *IS* a regular Windows PC. As long as the hardware set (processor, RAM, free disk space, GPU) are compatible with the requirements of the program, it will run.

They may have been talking about Parallels, which has much more limited emulation of GPU functioning (the CPU is virtualized but the GPU is not). Parallels is a different solution that lets you run Windows and MacOS together without rebooting.

Alternatively, they may have just been talking smack. ;)

[thebeephaha]

The hardware is the same as a PCs (except put together better).

Heh... sure. ;)