bootcamp...
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- Nac_part2
since there seems to be so many topics on the macbook, I might as well get my question out now.
I am thinking of buying the pro soon, and installing bootcamp (for developer reasons)
Anyone with any experience running it yet?
- joyride0
Great question! I'm going to pick up one as soon as I know windoes vista will run on it.
I've heard theres an app that will let you switch between win and osX... aka Hot Boot. Not just choose at start up like I think bootcamp does. That nice if its true.
- Nac_part20
hopefully, there are certain apps, like flex builder i would love to use the mac for instead of buying another oc laptop for development reasons
- Nac_part20
dammit can't type...
i meant 'another pc laptop'
- joyride0
I've read a few reviews on bootcamp and all that. Everyone says it works. Just found a review that heard a rumour about vista beta 2 installed.
I can't find the review on the hardware tests they did. osX v. win xp pro. But from what i remember it was pretty much a tie. some apps liked osx (apple apps obviously ran fast as hell) some win. PS ran like shit but in a year that should be ok... i hope
- MediaPimp0
Boot Camp allows the Mac to run windows like a true PC. Photoshop, gaming, 3DMax, etc., all work as they would on a PC... sometimes much better due to the graphics cardm processor and ram. I have installed on both my MacBook Pro and Intel iMac and no longer have any use for my PC at work.
If you want a virtualization solution, Parallel's Desktop run Windows fine as well without having to reboot. Big difference is, it doesn't take advantage of the graphics processor so no gaming, 3dmax, etc. But stuff like word, and web browsing work great. It also runs Flash really well. So makes a great testing solution if you're a flash designer/developer.
- subversve0
there is some graphic noise in the video when running windows on my macbook pro (if you move a black box around the screen, you'll see what i mean). not a problem for games, but definitely bugs me when i'm designing...
- Infirm0
I installed it fine on my Mac Mini and iMac, both run fine, no such problems with graphics, but remember it is still only a beta, so there may be some issues...
- fowler0
ran great on my mbp. I took it off in favor of parallels though. No real need for any of the fancy graphics stuff, so parallels works just fine for me.