Bootcamp for Mac 66 Responses

Last post: 3 months, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: Aug 12, 08, 10:40 a.m.

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• Iggyboo

  Has anyone bootcamped their mac? I have 3 extra hard drives that are internal and I was thinking of using one of them for a windows operating system or atleast partitioning part of the drive to do this. Does anyone have a windows platform to suggest on a brand new mac intel dual core. I have heard of instability issues and wanted to know if people had any success or if it is risky business altogether still. I know the beta had it's issues. Please shed some light on this fellow qbn'rs.

  Aug 12, 08, 10:40 a.m. – Permalink

• Iggyboo

  I was thinking of using Home Vista edition? anyone cricket cricket

  

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  Dog-earAug 12, 08, 10:49 a.m. – Permalink

• MediaPimp

  I use my second internal 500gb hd for vista home premium and it works perfectly fine. I've had no stability issues at all, well, at least since i removed VMWare Fusion. I'm on an 8 Core MacPro.

  • I wont buy vmware but thanks thats great news.– Iggyboo

  

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  Dog-earAug 12, 08, 10:53 a.m. – Permalink

• ninjasavant

  I've seen good things with VMWare, lets you work in both at the same time

  

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  Dog-earAug 12, 08, 10:53 a.m. – Permalink

• designbot

  XP with Service Pack 3 is def the fastest...but despite what naysayers will tell you Vista is pretty cool. As long as you have at least 2GB of RAM and a decent video card Vista should run smooth with all the eye-candy turned on. Both XP and Vista are super stable. You shouldn't have any driver issues either, as under the hood your new Mac is basically a PC. I have never setup Bootcamp, but you could probably just use one of your extra drives to run Windows, and then if something happens or you don't like it your OSX will still remain in tact.

  • iam doing it it :) Iam going to get the vista home edition today.– Iggyboo

  

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  Dog-earAug 12, 08, 11:05 a.m. – Permalink

• Iggyboo

  PS thanks for your advice designbot!

  • glad to help :)– designbot

  

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  Dog-earAug 12, 08, 11:15 a.m. – Permalink

• YAYPaul

  I am using it under Tiger and it works ok.
  I would recommend only using it under Leopard though as XP SP3 will only install on the full release of Boot Camp. I'm not even sure you can get it for Tiger anymore (as it's out of beta).

  

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  Dog-earAug 12, 08, 11:15 a.m. – Permalink