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This will be amazing! I've been using MacDrive but it's flaky and doesn't work with Windows 7. This would be great!
 
I assume that the new version of Boot Camp would allow installations of Windows 7 or Vista?
For me personally, I would only need to see the Mac HD and be able to copy data files from it only. No programs. That sounds really good to me.

Rich :cool:

I just thought of something. It would be a bit cumbersome, but if they gave windows Read Only access to HFS+, and with OS X already having Read-Only Access to NTFS you could essentially work on both sides just fine without anything spilling into either partition from the other O.S.

You'd end up with copies of files you use on both getting duplicated since you'd be saving each to it's own partition but it would still 'work'

As a side note, I must be outta the loop, I walked past a 32GB flash drive last night (at Costco) for about $25.00 I really think that is a fantastic option for keeping files accessible in both systems. Also, if you have an Airport Extreme/Time Capsule at home you can access files from both systems on there.
 
Now how about fixing the multi touch trackpad drivers so that it doesn't keep blue screening and crashing out web browsers on a site using Flash. :(

Tap-to-click PLEASE as well.

Until they add that I'm using Parallels.

[How hard can this be!!!!! :mad:]
 
On the subject of Snow Leopard...

Got some new temporary licences today for certain bits of Mac software.
The Licence key says "Expires August 2009" when you run the application, the licence key is valid until September 2nd 2009...

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but Tuesday September 1st for Snow Leopard anyone?!

;)
 
Does anyone have any experience using this? If it works, this would be incredibly helpful. (Trying it now...)

If you're worried then give this one a shot NTFS for Mac OS X - fair enough it's $40.00 (£26.00) but it works with no problems... Well for me at least!

And they (Paragon) now include a separate installer for Windows machines to read/write Mac drives... Which is nice! :D
 
...Plus, even though Macs might not be able to run Windows viruses, Macs can still pass them on to other computers via e-mail or whatever. Some people seem to forget that. Just my 2¢

You mean in the case that a Mac user emails the virus to one of their Windows using friends?

A virus can't spread itself to other systems if it can't run. A virus in a .exe file on a Mac is just a file. It won't spread.

Unless there is some weird way virus' do spread in systems they can't operate in. Correct me if I'm wrong.
 
Cool! Another small piece of the puzzle to make things easier.

You know how macs can now run windows, what would happen if microsoft went out if their way to create an os that ran apple OS X.

Just saying. What allows Apple to do this but not the other way around?
 
You know how macs can now run windows, what would happen if microsoft went out if their way to create an os that ran apple OS X.

Just saying. What allows Apple to do this but not the other way around?

The OS X license agreement. Only 'Macs' may run OS X client, so it's not allowed to virtualise it. OS X Server doesn't have the restriction, but why would MS offer it when their product is dominant?
 
You know, I'm actually just fine with my Windows partition not being able to see/read/destroy my Mac partition.
 
They probably can only read/write to folders that have "everyone" group permissions with read/write enabled.

You can't really just go into your home folder from windows, it's locked to the specific OS X users, and that is usually where most people put their personal files in. So my guess is that you can only read/write to is the public folders and shared folders that you set up yourself. I am sure the System folders will be locked and hidden as well.
 
ahhh

I've been using PCs (IBM-compatible / DOS / Windows) for over 20 years, and I don't believe my systems have been infected more than perhaps 5 times, and not once within the past 5 years. Granted, I've *received* far, far more, typically through email attachments, but that's what "internet security" and "anti-virus" software is for. If you're not running that, then you have *no* reason to complain. Get Kaspersky Anti-Virus or one of the other quality anti-virus products on the market.

Thanks for reminding me why I switched :)
 
Cool. This will make my life easier. I just hope no one creates viruses taking advantage of this.
 
Some of you are just hysterical. Here are some handy tips for those of you who are upset that Apple just saved the rest of us some serious aggravation and increased our productivity at the expense of your virgin Mac experience;

1) Install antivirus and spyware protection on your Bootcamp Windows install. You should be doing this anyway. I shouldn't need to have to tell you this.
2) Just don't bother installing the HFS+ driver.
3) Just remove your Bootcamp partition as you're clearly not doing anything useful with it.

All I'm saying is that in years of running these supposedly "unsafe" environments, I have never had an issue. And obviously I have gotten patches and updates, arguing over a static machine is not what we are doing here :rolleyes:. OSX ain't infallible either. Are you saying that Apple releasing updates and patches from time to time also means that OSX is unsafe?

Patches or no, I am saying that Windows is, in my experience, not the plague that many holier-than-though fanboys on here make it out to be. Please, give me the option of full read/write. If you are scared of Windows getting it's "dirty hands" on you OSX drive, than turn it off.

Thank you for putting some sense in to this thread. Fanboys making stuff up only serves to put fear and panic into other people.

Perhaps Apple could implement read-only support for "holier-than-though" fanboys as well? Now that would be a good feature, wouldn't it?! Please make it internet-enabled as well. ;)

Common sense FTW!
 
One question I have is how will it behave with permissions? Does this mean that a user can use Windows to access another users' files?

As long as it observes permissions, it's read-only and you can disable it, I don't see a problem with this.
 
The OS X license agreement. Only 'Macs' may run OS X client, so it's not allowed to virtualise it. OS X Server doesn't have the restriction, but why would MS offer it when their product is dominant?

You could ask the question way they certify Linux , Solaris , and anyone else who wants to submit to the their certification program (http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx) . There is a whole new race as to whose hypervisor sits on the bottom ( VMWare , Xen (or derivation there of) , Hyper-V ). Whose ever hypervisor sits on the bottom gets to sell VM management software ( with deeper hooks.) The generic capabilitiy hypervisors are all going to be practically free.

As long as they are going to be in the business of providing a virtual machine. That machine should support a variety of OS ... otherwise it probably sucks in some way. ( things like supporting linux on Hyper-V and Bootcamp on Apple hardware open more doors than it closes. )



There is no disadvantage to Micosoft if they sell more stuff.

For Apple. If you have to buy $400+ version of the OS to run on a VM... just more money in their pockets. The catch is that none of the hypervisors run without kludges. VMWare Fusion works though (makes it transparent that it is running on apple labeled hardware since it is an OS X app.)
 
Some of you are just hysterical. Here are some handy tips for those of you who are upset that Apple just saved the rest of us some serious aggravation and increased our productivity at the expense of your virgin Mac experience;

1) Install antivirus and spyware protection on your Bootcamp Windows install. You should be doing this anyway. I shouldn't need to have to tell you this.
2) Just don't bother installing the HFS+ driver.
3) Just remove your Bootcamp partition as you're clearly not doing anything useful with it.
4) Keep the Windows OS patched and up-to-date.

Just keep in mine that:

1) No antivirus is 100% effective.
4) A fully patched windows OS DOES NOT mean you are not vulnerable. Windows has many, many outstanding issues they have not patched. There are also numerous issues that have either not been released to m$ for patching or just undiscovered yet.

All those do offer some sense of protection. but nothing is 100% safe.
 
Zfs

How about some full ZFS support in snow leopard, infact... how about native ZFS in leopard.
 
How about some full ZFS support in snow leopard, infact... how about native ZFS in leopard.

What is so important about having it in client version of SL? Majority of the users are not going to need it. Servers, I understand, not client right now.

Who knows, Apple could very well have a brand new ZFS or next gen HFS based file system that has been in development for the past several years that we know absolutely nothing about and it could be released within the next several years but not this year for sure.
 
You're right I don't know if they have some amazing new file system but for now, ZFS would be wicked.
 
After reading a few posts here it seems that nobody knows what ntfs-3g is.
You can read/write to ntfs drives from osx with this.

The hfs drivers on windows will be great though, especially if they are x64 compatible seeing as MacDrive has yet to work for x64.
 
The real virus threat

I'm not worried about a Windows virus propagating to my Mac. I'm worried that a Windows virus will have write access to my Mac meaning it could do destructive things like delete /users or install a Mac worm.
 
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