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General questions about MBP before buying

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jsch

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Jun 14, 2008
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hi. i am thinking about buying a macbook pro.
but before i do i wanna be certain of some things. i would really appriciate it if someone could answer the following questions:

1. Can macbook pro install and use programs like utorrent to download movies and softwares from torrent sites?

2. Can i do something with my macbook pro so i can play windows games at it? something that i can use all the programs apple normaly cant use but windows can?
 
jsch said:
hi. i am thinking about buying a macbook pro.
but before i do i wanna be certain of some things. i would really appriciate it if someone could answer the following questions:

1. Can macbook pro install and use programs like utorrent to download movies and softwares from torrent sites?

There are torrent clients for OSX, yes.

2. Can i do something with my macbook pro so i can play windows games at it? something that i can use all the programs apple normaly cant use but windows can?

Using something like crossover, or dual booting into windows, or vmware (depending on the game) yes.
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1. Yes (but discussions of pirating are discouraged here)

2. Yes... Bootcamp and/or Fusion (or Parallels) allow you to run Windows

EDIT: Too slow

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does the Windows games run slow on Apple using bootcamp? So i cant play big games?
 
For Doing IM and less intensive windows only apps, something like VMWare Fusions is fine, but games i would use boot camp for.

But of course, i would be paying for these games, and software in the first place.
 
btw, could you tell me a bit more about boot camp? does it cost? and things i shold know about it.
 
Boot Camp comes built in Leopard.

You just need a Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista disc to install it with.
 
hey, just thought of 1 last question: should i install windows xp or windows vista home prenium/ultimate on my macbook pro? i thought that i should install vista cause its newest but some people tell me that xp is better, is this true? considering am only gonna use the windows part to play games and other programs thats only for windows.
 
jsch said:
hey, just thought of 1 last question: should i install windows xp or windows vista home prenium/ultimate on my macbook pro? i thought that i should install vista cause its newest but some people tell me that xp is better, is this true? considering am only gonna use the windows part to play games and other programs thats only for windows.
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I personally would use XP, but thats just because I hate vista; feels to gimmicky.


That said, you guys (everyone else) should understand that Bootcamp is not virtualization (like with Fusion or VMWare)-it is Windows utilizing your mac as native hardware. Its no different from buying an off the shelf machine that comes preinstalled with windows.
The only reason you will need to bootcamp assistant is to make it easier to partition your disk and make an NTFS partition (and some things to the bootloader but, eh).

You technically can do it without the help of this assistant but i've never tried.
 
hi again. I was just wonderin on about something with partisionating or what ever u call it. If i have given the Windows part 32 GB. Can i later edit and give the Windows part more or less gb's with out affecting any files and with out having to reinstall Windows ?
 
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