- Mac-OS
Well if you have an Intel powered Mac running a Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later operating system you can run a complete Windows operation system such as Windows XP in parallel with your normal Mac operating system. With the Windows operating system installed on your Mac you can than play those Windows Game in fact you can run any Windows program.
To install Windows on your Mac you will first need to install the Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac software on your system. To successfully run the Parallels Desktop software on your Mac you must have the following:-
- Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later. To check what version of Mac OS X you have got, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu in the menu bar.
- An Intel-powered CoreTM Duo or CoreTM Solo Mac® Mini, iMac®, MacBookTM, MacBook Pro or Mac Pro.
- A minimum of 768MB of RAM but 1GB is recommended.
- About 200 MB of hard disk space on the boot volume for Parallels Desktop installation.
- Sufficient space on your hard disks to allocate for the virtual machines, i.e. 15 GB of hard disk space is recommended for each virtual machine.
Installing Parallels Desktop software on your Mac is not difficult. You can install any of athe Windows operating systems but there is a Windows Express Installation Assistant especially for Windows XP and Windows Vista.
When the Guest operating system is installed it will run in a window on your Mac screen. When you run an application in the virtual machine with Windows installed, the running application’s icon appears in the Dock by default. If you then click the Windows application’s icon in the Dock it launches the virtual machine and then the Windows application.
