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Boot Camp
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 @andymac4182 Hello to all out there in betaPod land :P Date joined: 8 Jul 07Total posts: 178 Location: Brisbane, Australia | Has anyone used boot camp yet? Is it any good? --- Andrew Web Designer/Programmer |
 @Hellclanner i love betaPod :) Date joined: 25 Apr 07Total posts: 525 Location: Woodlands, Singapore | RE: Boot Camp from what i've learnt at other mac forums, boot camp is like a virtual machine right? it is able to load XP in a window of a Mac. it's cool huh? but is it a seperate software or it comes with a mac? |
@andymac4182 Hello to all out there in betaPod land :P Date joined: 8 Jul 07Total posts: 178 Location: Brisbane, Australia | RE: Boot Camp no its dual booting windows on a mac. if you want to run windows in a window you use something like parrallels or vmware fusion. atm it is a free download and it will come bundled with the new mac os. --- Andrew Web Designer/Programmer |
 $hojx93 Date joined: 30 Jun 07 Total posts: 47 Location: Singapore | RE: Boot Camp Sad to say my Mac isn't Intel(still that old PowerPC). Boot Camp allows us to run Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista natively in an Intel Mac. Which means you can run Windows like it is on a common PC, except with the extra speed and functionality. The new Macs(iMac, MacBook[Pro]) comes with things like iSight and those 'special' keys on the keyboard (volume, brightness and eject). Boot Camp will burn a disc with the drivers for all these, so we can even use them on Windows. Boot Camp Public Beta is avaliable for free download at http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/. It will be bundled with the new Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard when it is released. Comparing Boot Camp vs. Parellels vs. VMware Fusion... Boot Camp (BETA) - http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ =) - Allows us to run Windows (XP SP2/Vista) natively - No performance/speed loss =( - Native also means no switching between OS X and Windows - Restarts and Restarts VMware Fusion (Unreleased & in evaluation) - http://vmware.com/products/fusion/ =) - Unity - run Window programs (Office'07, WMP11 etc.) directly on OS X desktop =) - Wide range of OSes for virtualisation Parellels Desktops 3.0 for Mac - http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/ =) - Coherence (same as Unity in Fusion) =) - Wide range of OSes for virtualisation =) - SmartSelect - run Windows files with Mac softwares and vice versa without moving files across OSes. ---  |
@andymac4182 Hello to all out there in betaPod land :P Date joined: 8 Jul 07Total posts: 178 Location: Brisbane, Australia | RE: Boot Camp bad part about parellels is it modifies windows system files which vmware doesnt --- Andrew Web Designer/Programmer |
@Hellclanner i love betaPod :) Date joined: 25 Apr 07Total posts: 525 Location: Woodlands, Singapore | RE: Boot Camp oh? @andymac4182 how bad can it go? whole system fails? |
@andymac4182 Hello to all out there in betaPod land :P Date joined: 8 Jul 07Total posts: 178 Location: Brisbane, Australia | RE: Boot Camp well when u boot the windows in parrallels it replaces hal.dll and some other ones if the os crashes it doesn't replace them with the old ones causing your bootcamp partition to be unbootable in bootcamp. --- Andrew Web Designer/Programmer |
@Hellclanner i love betaPod :) Date joined: 25 Apr 07Total posts: 525 Location: Woodlands, Singapore | RE: Boot Camp ahh.. i see. that's bad. they got to fix it. |
@andymac4182 Hello to all out there in betaPod land :P Date joined: 8 Jul 07Total posts: 178 Location: Brisbane, Australia | RE: Boot Camp its just the way that it works.. ive been playing with boot camp and vmware fusion .. :D its great i love it :P --- Andrew Web Designer/Programmer |
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