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Running Windows lets you play PC games that havent been ported to the Mac, or stay completely compatible with your documents from a PC-centric workplace.

We took a quick run at doing just that, as originally sussed out by the fantastic folks over at iMore.

Its pretty robust and works almost as well as the more costly solutions like Parallels or VMWare Fusion, so you can get a taste of things without having to bust out the credit card.

Youll want to choose the latest VirtualBox version (4.3.20 as of this writing) for OS X hosts x86amd64.

Once downloaded, you can launch and install the app, which will get you ready to roll with Windows 10.

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The process takes a couple of minutes, and its free as well.

The instructions at the Technical Preview page tell you to move the file to a USB drive and then install from there, but you dont need toI installed it just fine from the file on my Macs hard drive.

Click on the blue New star button at the top, and click through the default settings.

Youll first give the newly created virtual environment a name and choose the Windows Type and then Windows 8.1 (64 bit) from the two drop-down menus.

I left this at the default 2 GB setting, but you can increase it by moving the little slider to the right.

Avoid a size that hits in the yellow or red zone, or you may have issues with running both OS X and Windows at the same time.

Simply click on Create, then let it make a VirtualBox Disk Image, or VDI, on the next screen.

I let it create a dynamically allocated hard drive, since that was the default option, as well.

I left it at the default 25 GB setting, and then clicked on Create.

Youll have an option to Capture your mouse within the environment, and then youll find out that your host OS (OS X) allows for mouse pointer integration.

Click Next when you see the Disk 0 Unallocated Space screen, and then click through the rest of the Windows installation prompts.

You can hit Command-F to go full screen and trick anyone into thinking youre running a Windows machine (except your Macbook looks way better than most PCs).

You can now install Steam or other PC games, or just mess around with the new OS.

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