Bootcamp For Mac Pros And Cons

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Dual boot with Boot Camp. VM using Parallels, VMware or VirtualBox. VM using Parallels or VMware running the Boot Camp Windows installation. The third gives you the advantages of the first two, i.e. You can make the decision which option to use every day or hour whenever you want.

There is abolutely no doubt that Microsoft Vista can be installed and booted using Apple's Boot Camp Assistant software. A few things to remember: 1) Install BootCamp Beta 1.1.2 (the latest version) 2) Install ALL the latest firmware updates for your particular Intel Mac. 3) Do this BEFORE you attempt to install Windows XP w/SP2 4) You MUST have one of two XP products: a) a Full Retail version of XP w/SP2 (this is the version you purchase Retail -- NOT OEM.

B) a 'Generic FULL OEM' version of XP w/SP2. This is NOT the OEM version which is included with a new machine. Purchase it from a reputable software dealer, such as Amazon.com. The disk will have FULL-COLOR, edge-to-edge Microsoft holograms. These holograms will NOT be printed on top of the disk. They will be put in the disk as part of the manufacturing process.

Unless your disk has such holograms, you do NOT have a 'Generic FULL OEM' copy of Windows, and it will be UNUSABLE, and UNLICENSABLE. 5) I have tried installing XP w/SP2 using a) a Retail XP w/SP2 Upgrade disk. I was unsuccessful, since I do not possess an external USB CD/DVD drive on which to put a previous Full version of Windows.

I tried copying my Generic OEM of Windows 98SE to an external USB 2.0 drive, but the XP installer failed to recognize the drive. B) I tried copying my Windows 98Se install disk to a 1GB USB 2.0 Flash Memory drive. Again, I was unsuccessful, since the XP installer failed to recognize the Flash Memory drive. 3) I have heard that the XP installer will recognize an external USB 2.0 CD/DVD drive.

I cannot attest to that. As to the installation of Vistaa: 1) With the first two iterations of Boot Camp Assistant, it was necessary to delete the EFI partition on your Mac drive to be install Vista. 2) Happily, with the release of Vista RC1, and BootCamp 1.1.1, this was not necessary.

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3) With Vista RC2 and BootCamp 1.1.2, it is definitely NOT necessary. Vista installs cleanly using Boot Camp Assistant 1.1.2. There are a few caveats, however: a) A few Intel Mac hardware items will be unavailable to Vista: i. The built-in iSight camera. The Apple Remote iii.The back-lighting of the MacBooks' keyboards.

B) Some users have reported overheating of their MacBooks under both XP and Vista. C) Under Vista, the Macintosh Drivers for XP will have to be extracted and installed by hand, since the MDforXP disk fails when the ATI driver attempts to install.

No other drivers are installed after this. D) The Vista installer does contain an Airport driver for those who have Airport wireless cards. E) The Macintosh Drivers for XP disk has a keyboard driver for Apple keyboards, and it does work with Vista. Microsoft keyboards, on the other hand, are a different story. While basic keys (including SOME media keys) will be available to Vista, special keys will not.

For example, none of the 'My Favorites' keys will be available to Vista, since the Intellitype Pro driver is basically broken with Vista. However it IS possible to gain full use of these keys. If you need them, I will post a method subsequently.

F) The Apple CD-Eject key will NOT be available to Windows until AFTER the Apple keyboard driver is installed under Windows. I have found NO Windows software which will NOT run under either XP or Vista (however, some low-level software, such as video and audio drivers, do NOT work under Vista, since Vista has a completely NEW driver model, which is NOT compatible with XP.) Hopefully, this will help thos who are making the switch. Donald McDaniel.

If you have to switch between operating systems as you work, then I'd suggest that you consider Parallels Desktop, which allows you to have both Mac and Windows OSs running concurrently. I only have 1Gb of RAM on my machine and I'd suggest that 2Gb would be better when running 2 OSs together. I have found that keeping Mac-side open applications to the barest minimum whilst running Parallels Desktop, and also keeping Windows-side apps to the bearest minimum, helps the Mac to cope. If you run many applications on the Mac whilst running Parallels Desktop, your Mac will slow to a crawl and eventually crash. I have sent a few e-mails to Parallels Desktop support, but have yet to receive a reply. I have had problems using my Skype 'phone and my Microsoft Mouse in Windows - Windows will not see them.