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Jul 31, 2015 - Yes, Windows 10 can run on a Mac, but it's early days and driver issues. Users have been able to install Windows on a Mac for years,. The MAC is otherwise the Media Access Control address, which is basically a unique identifier for network devices on your desktop or laptop. Every PC has one, or perhaps two for those with both wired and wireless LAN cards, and you can find the MAC quickly in Windows 10.

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MAC address or Media Access Control address is a unique identifying address that is designated to a computer over physical networks. Just like every house needs an address of its own to get identified by others, similarly every hardware machine also requires an identifier.

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MAC has analogous purpose. Every machine having a network interface card (NIC) installed in it is assgined a MAC Address. Since, the address is registered and encoded by the manufacturer is it also known as hardware address.

MAC Address is a 48 bits address field. That means it can accommodate 2^48 MAC addresses in all. MAC addresses are of two types, the universally administered addresses assigned by the manufacturer of the NIC and the locally administered addresses which are assigned to a computer device by the network administrator. Now giving a terse description about the data bits. The MAC addresses are 48 bits each which means each address is 6 bytes. The first three bytes represent the manufacturer identifier.

This field helps to identify the company which manufactured the computer. This is known as the OUI or Organizationally Unique Identifier. The remaining 3 bytes gives the physical address. This addressing depends on the company conventions.

Windows also maintains one or more MAC addresses, which are not associated with hardware cards. Windows dial-up networking and VPN clients use virtual MAC addresses.