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Do I need to buy Windows OS if I have Parallel?

Ah so basically crossover is like "Parallel" but either way I need windows operating system to make any ".exe" work on my mac, correct?

-Joey
 
nick9191 said:
Yes, its not that bad, Windows XP is about $70 now.
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Holly crap thats' cheap! I haven't bought an OS in the longest time, everytime I buy a new computer it comes with the latest OS... but wow that's pretty cheap!

Thanks again folks ;)
-Joey
 
crossover doesn't ask for a valid copy of windows.

But crossover is limited and can only run a certain fraction of windows apps.
 
Are you a college student? If so you can get a special student version of XP (or Vista) from your respective institution for as little as $10.
 
Cross Over is really limited and works with few apps.

Parallels delivers full-scale Windows and You'll be able to run exe files there

You can also get an OEM version of Windows if it is possible.
 
Depending on your needs, an old W2K license scavenged off an old machine could be good enough. Thats what I did. Was decommissioning an old workstation (duel core 466 Celeron rig - yes I know Celerons are not supposed to work SMP) so I could legitimately reuse the license.

W2K - nice and fast. Much less resource hungry. No stupid activation garbage. Perfect for running those two Windows Apps I still need to fire up every month or two.
 
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You don't need a windows liccense to use crossover that's why I thought you might be interested. Hope you get it sorted!!
 
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