Anyone running it on their Apple Mac's with Intel dual core processor ? just curious on pros and cons and how stable Windows XP is on a seperate partition.

Thanks

 

I'm not running it myself, but I've heard from friends that it runs just fine. I don't have enough Windows apps that I need to run or else I'd be running it as well.

 

I have it on my Macbook Pro. It actually runs alright. The first time you use it, you have to make some adjustments to the screen, but otherwise, it does fine. I've never used Windows for any heavy-duty programs, so use discretion. OSX has been god to me so ive hardly ever had to use windows.

 

I am a network administrator for the US Army and have worked with Windows for almost 10 years now, mainly cause the Army's computer system are 95% Windows based. I have always wanted to learn Mac's and with boot camp it gives me the best of both worlds. The ability to learn a new system and take advantage of all the great video/picture editing software and secondly be able to still run the Army programs I have that are purely Windows based.

 

Dont forget, there is also Parallels available for the Mac, which allows you to run windows in a separate window while you run OSX. for boot camp, you have to restart it each time if you want to switch platforms. with Parallels, you simply open a new window. just food for thought.

oh, and make sure you get a HUGE hard-drive. the space will disappear real fast, especially if you edit picture/videos.

 

visit this site

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/

its a software that allows you to install windows programs on your mac
without using boot camp or parallel

 

Parrallel install is pretty nice, tested on a few macs!

 

i have a macbook pro core 2 duo 15" and had the older one as well. windows xp runs very stable with the newest version of BootCamp. If you are interested in parallels I would highly recommend it if you're planning on running xp on a separate partition. with parallels you'll be able to boot xp from the secondary partition without having to reboot your mac. further you'll have a drag and drop interface between windows and mac while running your xp partition from within your OSX environment. Further, the newer version of bootcamp does support vista as well but there is not support for booting it within OSX yet through parallels.

I'm interested in how that other program posted above "seamlessly integrates" itself between windows and mac environment since windows based applications run through a registry whereas mac applications are shells and run off of unix.

Jess, let me know if you have any other questions. I simply love parallels and it's been working great since the day it was released. all the newer editions keep adding more feature that make parallels very manditory if you run both windows and mac platforms at work or at home.

Currently the best features are coherence mode and the drag and drop between windows and mac which makes things so much nicer.

i think it's best to check things out at http://www.parallels.com/

 

I have been doing alot of research on Parallels lately and I am starting to lean towards it more and more vs Boot Camp. The main reason is because I like the idea of hooking up an addtional monitor in extended desktop mode and dragging the Windows window over and using it like that. that way my mouse can move between two different operating sytems on two different screens.