Boot Camping it up with Windows XP

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Published April 5, 2006

Boot Camp

I don’t think anyone really believed the rumours, but there has been an official move on Apple’s part to start supporting Windows XP on Intel based Macs with the release of Boot Camp Beta. This supposidly makes it incredibly easy to install Windows XP on Intel based Macs, and it now includes some critical drivers that still haven’t been found/developed by the community effort, such as the Radeon X1600 graphics and wireless AirPort networking.

Now if only I had a MacBook Pro to try this with…

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  1. stevieb April 6, 2006 at 2:09 pm

    So… what is the point? Is it just to satisfy the geeks that reckon a 200GB Hard Drive is too small and see this as justification?

    Just buy a PC dammit!

  2. Weiran Zhang April 6, 2006 at 10:00 pm

    I can now get a MacBook Pro (funds permitting), and install Windows and OS X on it. Therefore, the only reason for needing my desktop is for games that a Radeon X1600 can’t run.

    OMFG I want a MacBook Pro now!

  3. stevieb April 6, 2006 at 11:05 pm

    So basically, your desktop is more or less useless. It also means that (assuming the MacBook Pro runs with a Radeon X1600) the MacBook Pro has a severe shortcoming in the graphics department…

  4. Weiran Zhang April 6, 2006 at 11:23 pm

    Well, I prefer using my 19″ (soon to be 24″ Dell monster!) TFT, nice Microsoft keyboard and slick laser Logitech mouse if I’m at my desk. But I’m thinking that as I’m going to be travelling a lot, a laptop is going to become more and more useful. And not having to lug two laptops around (OS X and Windows) when I need both Windows and OS X would be nice.

  5. stevieb April 11, 2006 at 12:52 am

    WHY do you need OS X?

  6. Weiran Zhang April 11, 2006 at 9:51 am

    I find its nicer to used OS X then Windows if I don’t need anything Windows specific. Also, the MacBook Pro I think beats (in design, engineering and quality) any other laptop out at the moment.

  7. stevieb April 11, 2006 at 2:32 pm

    Yeah… but you don’t need the best. That’s why we have Bic biros and WHSmith biros!

    They do the same damned thing!

  8. Weiran Zhang April 11, 2006 at 9:55 pm

    I use gel roller pens, I can’t use biros now because they just don’t write well enough. I suppose pens and operating systems make for a surprinsingly good analogy.

  9. stevieb April 12, 2006 at 9:32 pm

    Exactly… only very rarely will you need to use both at the same time, and for the sake of continuity and convenience, we often only use one at a time! More than one gets confusing!

  10. Weiran Zhang April 17, 2006 at 6:24 pm

    Alright, so a pen isn’t a good analogy. But I’d say I’d maybe use OS X 50% of the time and Windows 50% (depending on how much work I’m doing and how many games I’m playing, both of which are predominatly Windows tasks).

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  1. By The Geek and I on April 5, 2006 at 11:04 pm

    Apple releases Bootcamp…

    This is pretty cool, if you have a need to run Windows on your MacBook Pro. So far, the install has been almost uneventful. First 2 tries failed with full lockups during the second part of the install. The third install, I told the blue screen area of…