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Apple MacbookI recently put VirtualBox on my Mac so that I could run Windows on it. Of course, Boot Camp is an option, and so is Parallels Desktop, but the former is a hassle because you have to reboot and the latter is more than I want to spend - as little as possible. VirtualBox is pretty good and Vista runs fine on it. You can install a wide range of operating systems, including various flavours of Linux, Unix, Dos and Windows. In fact, just about the only OS you can't run on it is OS X.

Wouldn't is be really useful to be able to run OS X in a virtual machine in OS X? You could use it to test software without any danger of it messing up your system, you could run OS X 10.4 in 10.5 or vice versa for testing purposes. (I run Vista in XP on a PC and it's brilliant for testing things.) I can understand VirtualBox (and other virtual machines for that matter, not being able to run OS X on a standard PC, but this is an Apple Mac so why can't it run Apple OS X?

On a slightly different note, I bought a Mac magazine recently to find out about all the latest software, hardware and other goodies I could buy or download and yet again there is a whole page dedicated to slagging off Microsoft and Bill Gates. I buy Mac magazines to read about the Mac and consider such articles a complete waste of space. I don't want to read about some Mac fanatic going on and on about how bad Vista is, I've got a Mac and I want to read about all the cool Mac kit and discover the great things I can do my my computer. Why do people write this rubbish?

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The latest article to be added to the ever-growing Apple Mac section of the RAW Computing website is a two-part look at VirtualBox. No doubt you've heard of Parallels Desktop, an application that enables you to run Windows on your Mac. Well, VirtualBox does it too, only it's free. Here's how to download it, install it and run Windows or Linux on your Mac.

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Programs are written using RealBasic, which is a pretty good implimentation of Basic for the Mac and it's much much easier to write software using it than with any other programming language.

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