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Putting XP or Vista on a mac?
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Question about sound/audio drivers...
i just partitioned my alumibook and have windows xp SP3 now - posting this from windows..my questions are simple but may have complicated answers:
1. I have no audio - I think I need to download some sort of sound drivers, but where do I do that? I would like to play some games, but obv need sound to do so.
2. I can't right click - On OS X you can set it so you can hold a button and click or right click to get to secondary options, but on Windows I don't have that option. I went to the Control Panel and checked out the Mouse options but there is no option to enable a right click. Is there a button I can hold that will emulate the right click?
Thanks so much for your help. I think that's all for now!!
MC
i just partitioned my alumibook and have windows xp SP3 now - posting this from windows..my questions are simple but may have complicated answers:
1. I have no audio - I think I need to download some sort of sound drivers, but where do I do that? I would like to play some games, but obv need sound to do so.
2. I can't right click - On OS X you can set it so you can hold a button and click or right click to get to secondary options, but on Windows I don't have that option. I went to the Control Panel and checked out the Mouse options but there is no option to enable a right click. Is there a button I can hold that will emulate the right click?
Thanks so much for your help. I think that's all for now!!
MC
Did you use your leopard DVD while in windows to install drivers? If not, give that a shot, it should give you pretty much everything.
1. Drivers are on the Mac OS X Leopard install DVD. Stick it in windows and it should autorun.
2. Trackpad right click is 3 fingers. It's bugged and an absolute nightmare to use on Windows. Not sure what the Windows bootcamp experience was on the previous gen Macbooks but on the aluminum Macbooks it's close to hell on earth with buggy drivers, cracking/stuttering sound, bugged graphics on external monitors, trackpad that skips all over the place... basically everything that could be broken on windows is broken on the alumibooks.
Brings back memories.
That was so cool when it was introduced.
IBM really made a nice product. If memory serves, they were the first to use 3.5 inch floppy drives in a laptop. Other manufacturers were offering 5-1/4 inch floppy drives in their laptops. You could also remove the LCD screen and attach a monitor that would sit above the laptop. Really innovative at the time.
I did this twice, still no sound?? I have tried to do it manually, too. No luck. So annoying. I really need to get this working, ugh.
I did get the right click with three fingers, that works well (after getting the hang of it for a bit).
i needed for a couple programs for school that only ran on windows.. However my new school i am encouraged to have a Mac.