unstatusthequo Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 Quick question about default booting. Say I was to buy a MacBook Pro, and on it install Boot Camp. Then, say a relative of mine in 4 months wanted a laptop, but can't stand MacOSX... is there a way with or without Boot Camp to just install Windows on the Apple hardware natively? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzuka Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 you can set up boot camp assistant to give XP/Vista most of the partition space and have XP/Vista as the startup disk, so yes you can use XP, but OS X will still be on it, unless someone else has some other ways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 You can read this thread on the subject including the many comments about buying an expensive Mac just to run Windows on. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=23074 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
non sequitur Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 cant you just do the firmware update then start the windows installer and format the drive?:/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unstatusthequo Posted September 29, 2006 Author Share Posted September 29, 2006 You can read this thread on the subject including the many comments about buying an expensive Mac just to run Windows on. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=23074 Thanks for the link. I think it may suit me to get the C2D MBP, then sell it to my relative and get the Santa Rosa based chipset next year. Just wanted to know if it was possible, which it seems it is... which means green light for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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