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Ezrael
21st March 2006, 01:27 AM
hey all,

before the dual booter was released I saw a few threads on various forums by students at law schools very interested in booting into XP. most law schools use a program by ExamSoft to administer tests (if you want to type them, otherwise you whip out the old legal pad), and it only runs on windows computers. I'm about to buy my new laptop for law school, and was curious if anyone has gotten it to work on a MacXP computer yet?

From what i've read, the program requires the computer to restart before running in order to prevent any other programs from running, and since the MBPs appear to have issues crashing when they restart, I hoped to hear some confirmations of success before plunking down my money.

thanks!
Ezrael

Ari
27th March 2006, 10:16 PM
They'll crash, but you can manually shut down the power and start up again.

Don't worry; the software will work fine.

jotun
28th March 2006, 05:45 PM
Are you really dumb enough to bet on that? Your professors will have no leniency with you. Buy something cheap that works, unless you can afford to buy a second laptop later on.