Apple Mac Book Air support XP install

[vianceadmin]

Hi all!

Can you install XP on the Mac Book Air instead of the normail MAC OS?

Thanks in advance!

 

[pentode]

From ComputerWorld:

"Apple also confirmed that MacBook Air users who want to install Windows XP or Vista in a Boot Camp partition must have an external USB optical drive, like the $99 SuperDrive the company sells. Windows can't be installed using the Remote Disc CD/DVD-sharing software bundled with MacBook Air, said Apple. "Be sure to connect your external USB optical drive to your MacBook Air before starting the Boot Camp Assistant," the company warned."

 

[vianceadmin]

So you would still have to install the MAC OS but you would have a "virtual xp session" so to speak within the MAC OS?

 

[pentode]

It's going to come with OS X on it. You run Apple's Boot Camp software to install Windows XP (you have to have a full XP install CD) and then you would be able to dual boot in either XP or OS X.

You might want to go to Apple's website and read up on Boot Camp.

There are software packages that allow you to run Windows applications in OS X as a virtual machine.

With Boot Camp, you actually boot right into Windows XP.