Why I buy this one ?
- Packaging: OEM
- Software Type: Operating Systems

TigerDirect offers this stuff with condition New, new for:

Price : $89.99 Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Mitronics offers this stuff with condition New, new for:

Price : $98.99 Usually ships in 1-2 business days

What our customer's say!

"It's Windows XP SP2 - Any Questions?", Ok, like the title says; It's Windows XP SP2. So what don't we all know about it by this point in time?

Personally I prefer to use my Macs over my PC, but this purchase was for my dad so he could still use Quicken 2008 and Family Tree Maker on his new iMac. Neither of those programs are well represented on the Mac, so Dad prefers to use Parallels running Windows XP to use the versions from his newly retired Windows notebook. It's a workable but clumsy solution until better Mac versions become available.

There nothing new to say about Windows XP SP2 that isn't common knowledge now. It is less expensive to use for running VMs like Parallels because of Microsoft's greedy licensing of Vista that requires purchasing Vista Ultimate, the most expensive version of Vista ($219.99), to be permitted run Vista in a VM. I think that is shameless price gouging on Microsoft's part.

"Serves its purpose for a Mac user", Very easy to install on my Macbook through VMWare Fusion. No difficulties whatsoever. Still greatly prefer Leopard over XP, however my workplace has some applications that only function through the Windows. Combined with VMware Fusion I have no difficulties using files in whichever OS is needed.

"XP - What you think it is",
This version of XP is cheaper than your typical version you find in the store or online - not sure why, but I saw someone refer to it when I was contemplating running Parallels on my MacBook. Works, well, like what you would expect. It did the job.

"Works good for use in parallels for IMac.", Used this on my IMac works great. I did have an issue getting the internet to run through windows using parallel program. Using information on the web got this issue resolved. Problem was setting up the parellel program not in this software.

"works perfectly with VMWare Fusion", Great price and all you need to plug into VMWare Fusion so that you can have Windows up and running.

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"Window XP for Mac", This software runs better on my MacBook Pro than my Windows XP Professional runs on PC. Great for Mac users that still have a few PC programs that they like.

"Perfect for Parallels on the Mac", I installed this on a new iMac running Leopard and Parallels and it is working perfectly.

"Works just great with a new iMac", I installed this on a new iMac that already had 2 mac partitions - contrary to what the boot camp assistant says. I did not use the boot camp assistant but instead simply used the disk utility on the Leopard install disk (booted from that disk as well) to make a 30 gig PC partition. Then followed some online guides to install windows, then booted windows and again used the leopard install disk to add the windows drivers for the mac hardware. I don't even think you need Leopard installed at all - but you do need the install disk with the Leopard version of disk utility and the windows drivers.

Windows runs so much faster on a mac and this OEM works just fine despite all the warnings not to install OEM versions on a Mac.

"Used with bootcamp ", I used this copy of XP with bootcamp for my mac. Worked flawlessly. I have no Idea what the difference is between this version and the others. I HIGHLY recommend this copy of XP to all Bootcamp users (mac). It's basically XP for mac! :) :) :)

"Virtual Desktop Use", If you are considering this for a virtual desktop, this version is perfect and affordable. I ordered VMware Fusion and just followed the easy guide and after about 30-40 minutes everything was loaded, copied and finalized automatically.

I gave a rating of 4 stars because I prefer the mac system over it, but for the price, and what I am using it for, it is perfect. I would only use this version over vista and others because your mac will run quicker. Eventually you may want to have at least 2gb of ram, but I am using 1gb which is recommended and it is fine.

A note if you get VMware. It has a seamless "unity" option where you literally could not tell you were in xp. Once in that view mode, just click the application tab on the top and xp is at your fingertips!

Enjoy!