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Apple Releases Boot Camp 1.2

You Wont Need To Reinstall Windows

Just run the install as per normal
once you have made the driver CD quit.
 
Xapplimatic said:
OK, now that that's out of the way, we can be SURE that LEOPARD WILL BE ON TIME! lol
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That could well be what's sparked this release. All the recent news about the OS being delayed whilst they get vista running in it has now been disproven and everyone will expect the spring release once again.
 
Great news not because it supports vista but that it wont be delayed like it was reported a few days ago. My money is waiting for Leopard 😀
 
OwlsAndApples said:
Cool...but is there so much advantage of installing vista over XP when there is tiger already? Many of Vistas advantages over Xp can be found in Mac OS X...
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Indeed.

The ONLY thing I need my Boot Camp/Parallels Windows to do on my Mac is run Windows programs.

XP does that perfectly well. I see no reason to tell ANY Mac user to use the resource-draining Vista on their Mac when XP can do the job they need with a lot less stress on their system.
 
I just downloaded it and it would not mount. I had to mount it in Toast and then it would hang just before beginning the install. Anyone else having issues? I deleted the image and am downloading it again, maybe it was a bad download...?😕

edit: all set, I downloaded it again and it works fine.
 
Small White Car said:
Indeed.

The ONLY thing I need my Boot Camp/Parallels Windows to do on my Mac is run Windows programs.

XP does that perfectly well. I see no reason to tell ANY Mac user to use the resource-draining Vista on their Mac when XP can do the job they need with a lot less stress on their system.
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Some games will be Vista only (e.g. Halo2)
 
05elstonc said:
What is even more interesting is that Apple released this update. Why release it so early? They could have held off for Leopard's release. Not sure if it means things are moving swiftly, or if they know Leopard will be released at the tail end of their schedule and want to keep people from sending irate emails.
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The seeded it to get feedback from customers before shipping the final version in Leopard. Recall Windows environments are wildly more varied then your typical Mac OS X environment so Apple needs this feedback to find issues that they themselves cannot feasibility test (without a large cost).
 
Nice! Between this and Parallels being able to use the Bootcamp partition, I'm in heaven 🙂
 
Did they finally fix that trackpad bug where the trackpad randomly locks up for a while on my MacBook? Hope so, it might make it usable again!
 
shawnce said:
The seeded it to get feedback from customers before shipping the final version in Leopard. Recall Windows environments are wildly more varied then your typical Mac OS X environment so Apple needs this feedback to find issues that they themselves cannot feasibility test (without a large cost).
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Also, this now makes Macs a possibility for those looking to upgrade to a Vista PC.
 
reckless_0001 said:
An earlier report that, support for Vista in Boot Camp wouldn't be possible untill October. So, what's the weather like down in Regina? 😀
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Ah, gotcha, I wasn't aware of this - thanks! 🙂

As for the weather, it's been a mixed bag lately - lots of sun, highs in the 70s, then rain, cooler temps and storm watches! Ah, March is a fun month... 😀 Where exactly are you in this fine country? 😎
 
Ugh. Vista.

Hooray for Apple, it can't do them any harm.🙂

And hooray for those users that want / need this feature. 🙂 😀

And double hooray because it seems to scotch the Digitimes Leopard Delay rumors. 🙂 😀 😎

But I'll be keeping Vi$ta well away from my nice shiny MBP when I get it. I've just spent the last two days (and I ain't done yet) setting up a Vista laptop for a relative and I now feel physically sick as a direct result. 🙁

SL
 
psychofreak said:
So what new stuff (apart from stability) could come in the final Leopard version?

Parallels/Fusion hypermix?
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I pray for OS X file system support in XP/Vista. Limited to document folders only though. 99.89% of viruses out there are designed around infecting the OS and exe files. Very few viruses actually infect data files now a days, and none are cross platform compatible.
While there are 3rd party apps for Windows that can read HFS partitions the current versions for Windows is twitchy on a MBP.
 
superleccy said:
Ugh. Vista.

But I'll be keeping Vi$ta well away from my nice shiny MBP when I get it. I've just spent the last two days (and I ain't done yet) setting up a Vista laptop for a relative and I now feel physically sick as a direct result. 🙁

SL
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Grow up. 🙄

macjay said:
Also, this now makes Macs a possibility for those looking to upgrade to a Vista PC.
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Very few people are upgrading their system because of Vista. They are just ready to upgrade and Vista just happens to be pretty much all they can get now. How do I know this? I'm in "average" consumers homes day in and day out. People ask questions.


waynergy said:
How about 64-bit Vista?
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Don't go anywhere near it. Seriously. You think Vista 32-bit has software compatibility issues. Its nothing compared to the 64-bit version.
 
~Shard~ said:
Ah, gotcha, I wasn't aware of this - thanks! 🙂

As for the weather, it's been a mixed bag lately - lots of sun, highs in the 70s, then rain, cooler temps and storm watches! Ah, March is a fun month... 😀 Where exactly are you in this fine country? 😎
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North of P.A. 😉

Where'd my previous posts go? I don't think there was anything wrong with them. 😕

edit: nevermind i read the rules. 🙂
 
SiliconAddict said:
Very few people are upgrading their system because of Vista. They are just ready to upgrade and Vista just happens to be pretty much all they can get now. How do I know this? I'm in "average" consumers homes day in and day out. People ask questions.
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*nods* People tend to ask questions when I'm in their houses day in and day out too.
 
Drivers CD now better!

The drivers disc for Windows is much better now! Before all the drivers were in one package, so if you had to re-install one driver, say for the Wireless card, you would have to repeat the whole process. Not anymore!

Each driver is it's own executable file, but there is still a Macintosh Drivers for Windows.MSI file which launches an installer for everything. But, this way if you have to install one driver by itself, you now can with ease. 🙂 😀

For me this is a much welcome change, half the time I've installed Boot Camp on a Mac I get driver problems making me re-install drivers, this'll make things easier. 😉
 

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Ah been waiting for this - as a Computer Science Degree student we get Vista Business free from the MSNDAA so I figure what the hell I can run some windows stuff then. :apple: is still a better OS though 😉
 
SiliconAddict said:
Grow up. 🙄



Very few people are upgrading their system because of Vista. They are just ready to upgrade and Vista just happens to be pretty much all they can get now. How do I know this? I'm in "average" consumers homes day in and day out. People ask questions.





Don't go anywhere near it. Seriously. You think Vista 32-bit has software compatibility issues. Its nothing compared to the 64-bit version.
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On the contrary, driver support for Vista x64 is pretty much on par with Vista x86. I own a Ferrari 5000 laptop running Vista x64 and all the drivers are available and working well. My other system at home, an AMD Semprom PC also runs it driver support was no problem. Apple might be saving 64-bit support through BC in Leopard as incentive to upgrade.

Vista x64 has a lot of advantages, but not to the casual user, examples include, support for larger amounts of memory, up to 128 GBs of it, plus 16 TBs of virtual memory. Kernel Patch protection which makes it way more secure than Vista x86. Only allows signed drivers, again, makes it way more secure than x86 Vista. One thing though, its LOVES memory, I recommend a minimum 2 GBs to run it smoothly and even then its not enough.
 
Typo?

Just noticed a typo in the spash screen after you click download on the website.... "Boot Camp is just one of many new features in Mac OS X Leopard, the next major release of Mac OS X, due out by Spring of 2007"

See if you can spot it 😉


PS. If only it was true :apple:
 
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