XP and Vista on the MacBook Pro

By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes January 14, 2007, 11:12 PM PST

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Parallels for Mac

ZDNet blogger, Adrian W Kingsley-Hughes wanted to run Windows XP and Windows Vista on a MacBook. To accomplish this task, he downloaded Apple BootCamp and Parallels for Mac. He used BootCamp to run XP and Parallels for Windows Vista RTM. This gallery shows you the installation process for each application and what Windows XP and Vista look like running on a MacBook.

Installing Parallels

Credit: Adrian W Kingsley-Hughes

Parallels for Mac

Now it works after a repair – here is Parallels running Vista in Coherence mode.

Apple BootCamp

Installing Apple BootCamp

Apple BootCamp

Installing Apple BootCamp

Apple BootCamp

Installing Apple BootCamp

Apple BootCamp

Installing Apple BootCamp

Apple BootCamp

Installing Apple BootCamp

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