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.
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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.![]()
NTFS r/w support in Mac OS X can be downloaded for free here.
http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/
Does anyone have any experience using this? If it works, this would be incredibly helpful. (Trying it now...)
...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¢
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?
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.
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. 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.
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?
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.
How about some full ZFS support in snow leopard, infact... how about native ZFS in leopard.
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.