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Have you ever come across a program you really wanted to use that’s only made for Windows? Whether you want to play Windows-only games without having a second computer or there’s a critical application you’re used to using that doesn’t support Mac OS, the availability of software for Mac can be the one thorn in an otherwise splendid computing experience. With Apple’s switch to Intel processors, the dividing line between Mac and “PC” is blurring into obscurity. Using Apple’s Boot Camp, you can install and run Windows side-by-side with Mac OS 10.5 or higher.

Boot Camp will let you repartition your hard drive and install Windows XP, Vista or 7 on any Intel Mac and load Windows drivers right from your 10.5 or 10.6 installation media. By holding down the option key as your Mac boots, you will see Boot Camp’s boot manager which lets you choose from a list of installed operating systems. Once you’ve installed Windows and boot into it, it’s just like having another computer in front of you. Anything you can do on a Windows PC, you can do in Windows on a Mac.

And with the simple installation of Mediafour’s MacDrive for Windows, you will be able to see all the files saved on your Mac OS X partition. The program allows Windows users to read and write to Mac formatted drives thus letting you access music, pictures, documents and movies in both operating systems saving you the hassle of having to move things to your Windows installation without an external hard drive, USB thumb drive or downloading them again. The combination of these two tools affords the user a seamless Windows and Mac experience. Who thought that one day the two could play so nicely together?

If you need help installing or configuring your Boot Camp environment, come on down to Geek Easy. We can set up everything for you and show you how it all works. Our Boot Camp setup sells at $70 if you already own the software, and if you need to order Windows through us, we offer a discount on the setup labor depending on the version. If you decide you would like MacDrive along with Windows, we install and configure the software at cost with any Boot Camp setup. Come in or call for the current bundled  prices on different Windows versions and see just how easy running Windows on your Mac can be.

To download a trial of MacDrive or purchase it from Mediafour for $49.99, visit https://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive.

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