My Trip To Bootcamp
So I had planned on waiting until tomorrow to work on this, but after work tonight I couldn’t wait. I scrounged up an XP CD we had collecting dust in the bottom of a desk drawer. After about 2.5 hours of playing around this post is coming to you from Windows XP on my MacBook Pro.
So far everything works great. Everything being my wireless adapter and Firefox. It is getting late and I will no doubt load up my favorite apps tomorrow and put this through it’s paces a bit more. It is also very fast, it is a fresh XP install though….I’m sure it will slow down.
As for the process I had to get the firmware update and OSX update. Then I only ran into one snag. There was some kind of problem with my hard drive partition. The installer suggested that I run Disk Utility from my startup disk and run a repair. Well that was at the office, so instead booted single-user mode and ran fsck. One the volume was repaired I was off and running. A very smooth hour long XP install. More to come on this topic I am sure.
First problem to solve….how to write click with a trackpad that only has one button!
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April 7th, 2006 at 10:11 am
Yeah, XP runs blazingly fast on my nearly 3 year-old AMD 2000+ when I’ve only got FireFox, Thunderbird, and Office installed.
When will Apple learn that people want more than one-button? And by more, I don’t mean the crazy thing they came out with not too long ago that had like 15 buttons.
I get more and more interested in the MacBook Pro, but just can’t afford that kind of scratch.
April 7th, 2006 at 10:26 am
Yeah, I couldn’t afford it personally, but the company needed Intel Mac. Look out there is a comparison coming….my brother just got his new DELL laptop that is very comparable to my MacBook. I think I will write me thoughts when I have some more.