bootcamp - where is it?

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in Mac Software edited January 2014
My wife needed a new computer, so she bought a 24" iMac Widescreen with Leopard 10.5.3 . The salesman assured her several times that the o/s included Bootcamp. Well, when she got home and set it up, she couldn't find it. (Neither she nor I are experienced Mac users; I, however, would probably qualify as a very experienced Microsoft Windows user.) In the process of rooting around, my wife downloaded a bunch of updates that upgraded the o/s to 10.5.5 . According to what she read , those updates included Bootcamp.

But i still can't find it. Where is it supposed to be (I've looked in the Applications folder and don't recognize anything) ? What is it, exactly , that i'm looking for? Is it supposed to be called bootcamp.exe? or bootcamp.dbf? or something entirely different? I know how to install things in the Microsoft world -- how would i "install" bootcamp if i did find it? Can anyone point me to any online resources for bootcamp?

Thanks in advance.

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    My wife needed a new computer, so she bought a 24" iMac Widescreen with Leopard 10.5.3 . The salesman assured her several times that the o/s included Bootcamp. Well, when she got home and set it up, she couldn't find it. (Neither she nor I are experienced Mac users; I, however, would probably qualify as a very experienced Microsoft Windows user.) In the process of rooting around, my wife downloaded a bunch of updates that upgraded the o/s to 10.5.5 . According to what she read , those updates included Bootcamp.

    But i still can't find it. Where is it supposed to be (I've looked in the Applications folder and don't recognize anything) ? What is it, exactly , that i'm looking for? Is it supposed to be called bootcamp.exe? or bootcamp.dbf? or something entirely different? I know how to install things in the Microsoft world -- how would i "install" bootcamp if i did find it? Can anyone point me to any online resources for bootcamp?

    Thanks in advance.



    There should be an application called "Boot Camp Assistant" under the Applications/Utilities folder. This program will guide you through partitioning your hard drive, creating a Windows driver CD, and launching into the Windows Installer.



    "Boot Camp" itself is not an application persay; it is the ability for you to have multiple operating systems installed on your Mac. Thus, to use the Windows applications, you will restart your computer and choose to boot it into Windows. It will then be a 100% native Windows machine. Upon restarting from Windows, you will return back to OS X.
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