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Originally Posted by Imp
There are several Mac emulators out there, cant remember there names but while most emulate one converts the enviroment completly to Windows. This means its not really emulating but running as a PC so not wasting processing power emulating.
Cant remember the name of it or which person I played had this set up but PBEM worked fine.
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You are probably talking about Boot Camp. This is a feature that comes with OS X. It basically allows you to create another partition on your hard disk and dual-boot either to it or to the partition that holds OS X. It is not necessarily specifically for Windows, you could just as easily install Linux on the second partition and use Boot Camp to boot to it also.
So you are correct, when you boot into your Windows partition, your Mac is running Windows natively (one of the benefits of Apple switching to Intel processors several years ago) and functions just like any Windows laptop.
Its kind of a pain, though, to have to re-boot to run a Windows program, which is why so many people run one of the virtual machine emulators like Parallels, VirtualBox, or VMWare.
The only time I use Boot Camp to boot natively into Windows is when I know I will be running a resource-intensive game and don't want to take up any system resources running the game through a VM.
Thankfully, that is not a problem with WinSPWW2 as it runs quite snappily in Parallels.