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Old 03-17-2008, 11:37 PM   #7 of 65
Thomas Newton
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Re: PC guy thinking of making the leap....


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Originally Posted by John Dirk
I know some Macs will run Windows, but an emulation will never work reliably compared to its native version. Again, I do not have first hand knowledge of this, so it is speculative.

There's nothing emulated about Windows XP running in a Boot Camp partition on an Intel-based Macintosh. At that point, you've got a Wintel box which simply happens to have EFI instead of BIOS. It has all the advantages (lots of games) and disadvantages (lots of viruses) of Windows.
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