Apple Boot Camp (part Of Mac Os X, Leopard)

[g8trtim]

tried any games? (BF2?)

[Septimus]

Not yet, will do tomorrow.

[Jack is cool.]

dude i have an intel mac, too.

im trying it out. ill tell you all how it is

[nightcrawler1089]

Hot damn, and you guys know I don't curse easily .

-NC

[Levi- The perfectionist]

Slight off topic. just found it in the FAQ section for boot camp... ohh the abilities of mac; :D

Qustion: "I use my MacBook Pro with the lid closed in Mac OS X. Can I do this while running Windows XP?

Answer: "Yes." ... "You can close the lid and still use the MacBook Pro."

-so you can type on the keyboard, view the monitor (with your xray vision eyes) and use the scroll pad all with the laptop closed up... well thats good news!

(yes I know what they meant, but its worded funny)

[ppoppe]

wow.......all I could see when I saw this in the news was "Man, now I HAVE to get a Mac"

[smoovie]

I was looking into geting a laptop now apple just narrowed my choices for me.

[ShadyApple]

i think it sealed the deal for alot of people, espically for people who was shaky to make the transition to mac because they would miss using alot of there old windows programs. now its not a problem anymore.

[StefanKa]

Games runs pretty good.

3D Mark 06 Benchmarks

-MacBook Pro Core Duo 2Ghz Score 1518

-Athlon XP 2800+ Radeon X800 Pro Score 1558

-Athlon XP 3500+ GeForce 7800GT Score 3334

and here some Screenshots, but in German:

http://www.mactechnews.de/index.php?function=2&id=145

[Levi- The perfectionist]

I was looking into geting a laptop now apple just narrowed my choices for me.

I agree with you totally! two laptops in one...well pretty much, its not exactly like you can use both at same time, but you can share files between the two different partitions right?... What if you made them both fat32?

anyhow... I was a skeptic of the hacker technique, but then Apple brings it out with all the drivers and in a more elegant and simple way... typical apple ... Why would you get a standard windows laptop now??? (what is a windows laptop anymore anyway?)

Mind you I hope this is as far as Apple takes the whole "windows on a mac" thing, I'd hate to see them take things too far and then loose major support for software development in OSX, i love mac versions of programs, and I'd hate having to run windows more often because the programs that were once on the mac were only developed on the windows side.

Half life 2 anyone?

(mac haters burn in hell and eat my gravity gun! that's right you just got pwnd by a macbook and a pro )

[Carvetia]

Wow! Looking arund on various links.... i never realised Steve Jobs' official salary from apple is 1$ a year!

[Zacks]

Amazing makes me more confident of getting a mini with Intel Solo

i was thinking bout that too.. but 512mb ram is not that great for todays games, and the hd of the solo core is only 60gb.. most games need 4gb space for installing and that + the space for winXP..

you whould need to get more ram and a eventually a bigger hd wich costs a lot :confused:

@StefanKa

i have to laugh everytime i read this http://www.mactechnews.de/images/content_i...tcamptest/8.jpg

[smoovie]

I wonder if themers will now port their own skins. It would be fantabulastic to get a skin for XP the same day it was released for osX.

[ReidMedia]

I just watched a video of the installation of Bootcamp on Youtube.com I have to say i'm pretty impressed. Shame i don't have a Mac.

I think its great that you can now choose to run Mac OSX or Windows on your Laptop / Desktop. I hope it is possile someday to have the same "Boot Camp" process for OSX on a PC. I can only dream.

For those that have got XP installed on their Mac, can you open files that are saved under OSX into windows and vice versa? Do you notice a speed change in your system?

Cheers

[ShadyApple]

people are telling me that windows will benifit more from this because people who are buying macs will buy a legal copy (if you got legit that is) of XP and install it onto there macs. some mac users i talked to like my professor did not like this, they all think that apples supporting microsoft.

[ajmicek]

Here's a great general review of the install process and a video of an iMac running Half Life 2 quite well!

http://www.cabel.name/2006/04/boot-camp-fi...fe-2-video.html

[ShadyApple]

the link dosnt work ajmicek.

[zerroeffect]

Really? Works fine here in Fx 1.5 and IE. Nice video. Makes me want that Macbook Pro even more now.

[ajmicek]

If the link is not working, feel free to try www.cabel.name - the front page of that website should have this same article.

[ReidMedia]

That site www.cabel.name is pretty cool. Anybody know how to create the effect where if you click on an image it zooms in, then when you close it, it zoom out? Cheers

[d-shade]

I was wondering what this was and finally decided to look in to it.

Thats a pretty sweet deal too bad you have to restart to switch though.

can you share files between the two partitions?

or does it lock it some how?

too bad i have the goose neck imac. wish i had a dual core intel though.

I wonder how many people will try to get thier winxp installed on a mac to look like OSX.

now that would be weird. might run into some slight confusions when using the comp lol

[Sulk]

Good News, no need for windows for me, that is why i brought my Mactel

[Sranshaft]

For all those who wish to dual-boot XP under OSX instead of what Boot Camp is offering (boot either XP or OSX) then you should give this a look. It's in beta as well but it looks promising.

From the website:

It’s here! Parallels is proud to launch the Beta program the first virtualization solution specifically designed to work with Intel-powered Apple computers! Parallels Workstation 2.1 Beta for Mac OS X is NOT simply a "dual-boot" solution; rather, it empowers users the ability to use Windows, Linux and any other operating system at the same time as Mac OS X, enabling users to enjoy the comfort of their Mac OS X desktop while still being able to use critical applications from other OSes.

[nightcrawler1089]

Frontpage article on today's (4/06/06) Marketplace section of Wall Street Journal. Mossberg's an Apple fanboy, though .

-NC

[jerkulot]

imo the move will be very beneficial for microsoft - although hardware wise, apple will earn big time!! if only they'll make mac osx run efficiently on native x86 hardware and run winxp programs- Vista vs Mac os war...