I wrote a separate tutorial explaining how to get Boot Camp up and running on your Mac. Tip: It's probably worth noting that Boot Camp is only compatible with Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate and Windows 8 (including the Pro edition) and only 64-bit versions of Windows are supported. If you're planning to run loads of Windows applications that are very resource-hungry, then Boot Camp will give you the most stable performance. The advantage here is that it will give you the most seamless performance, as your Mac's resources are only being dedicated to one operating system. There are three possible methods: either via Apple's Boot Camp, a virtual machine or the use of a WINE emulator.īoot Camp will install a full copy of Windows onto a separate partition of your Mac's hard drive and it will allow you to dual boot when you fire up your computer. Thanks to the popularity of Macs nowadays, many developers are releasing either dual versions of their applications, or porting them over to OS X so they can run natively without any additional software required. In short, Windows and OS X are completely different systems with different architecture, so programs won't run natively on either platform unless they have either been ported across (that means they have been rewritten for the OS X architecture) or they have some kind of emulator built-in. If you're still interested, then read on to find out how. You've got to be prepared to accept a few bugs here and there and, especially in the case of games, a possible compromise in graphics performance. Before we start, though, it's worth mentioning that not all Windows programs run seamlessly. In this tutorial, therefore, I will cover a couple of different (and easy) methods you can use to get your favourite Windows programs running on OS X.
Before you start jumping for joy, let me mention that you can't simply download a Windows program, install it onto your Mac then fire it up - there's a few technical issues to iron out first!
One of the major advantages that Macs have is that thanks to their Intel architecture and some clever coding from the boffins at Apple (and other companies), they can run applications designed for both OS X and Windows.
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