MacDell

[iamyourmom]

I have a friend that managed to install a Mac OS x. leopard on his Dell XPS M1530.

Is it possible to reverse it and install a Vista or XP on a Mac machine?

[pcwizard]

You need to use a virtual emulation application:

VMWare Fusion
Parallels
or
Bootcamp are the 3 most common

Bootcamp boots them up individually as natively running
VMWare and Parallels allows you to run them both at the same time (like Virtual PC)

[cohen]

I have a friend that managed to install a Mac OS x. leopard on his Dell XPS M1530.

Is it possible to reverse it and install a Vista or XP on a Mac machine?

Yes you can, using boot camp, most of the time.

Recently i installed Mac on my PC, but some things didn't work, so i went back to vista

[iamyourmom]

what didn't work? anything important?

[computeruler]

but this is something that is illagle (putting mac on windows) and also the only way to do this is an illeagle copy of it so... i wish i could close topics

[iamyourmom]

but this is something that is illagle (putting mac on windows) and also the only way to do this is an illeagle copy of it so... i wish i could close topics

understood

[BC_Programmer]

why is it illegal to put apple software on windows?

[iamyourmom]

why is it illegal to put apple software on windows?

*censored* i don't know

[computeruler]

thats not the illeagle part putting apple on a pc thats the illeagle part

[kpac]

thats not the illeagle part putting apple on a pc thats the illeagle part

I have never heard this... Source?

[computeruler]

its in the end user agreement thing plus it wont work without an illeagle copy of mac os x

[cohen]

what didn't work? anything important?

Network, some of the keyboard functions, just not good on my PC

[Zylstra]

Man, I'm tired... let me try and think straight...

Okay, its not necessarily illegal to put Mac on a PC... however, it is illegal to "tamper" with the programming, modifying it so it can go on if for some reason it needs to be modified.

Assuming that the poster isn't modifying the program to install it on a PC, yes, its possible to to so.

You can certainly install Vista, or XP, on an Intel based Mac. G1, 2, 3, 4, whatever other Mac processors there are, will not support Windows.
Usually, because of Windows' great driver support, it will work fine. You might run across issues with special customized Mac hardware though... but, it really shouldent be a problem.

As PCWizard mentioned, there are quite a few pieces of software that are capable of doing this...
I would recommend Bootcamp. Bootcamp is basically duel-boot software for the Macintosh. Its free, and developed by Apple.

[computeruler]

so its really not illeagle to put mac on a pc? i thought you couldnt do it with a leagle copy of mac osx

[cohen]

so its really not illeagle to put mac on a pc? i thought you couldnt do it with a leagle copy of mac osx

Technically yes!

But you have to modify the Mac OS to work on a PC. So that is breaking the copyright licence and stuff, you could go more into it, if you wanted to.