anyone care to share their experiences with using bootcamp and windows on the macbooks? also, how much partition space do you allot for mac OS and windows?
Rickay726 said:What do u have to do to get bootcamp, is it true that u need to buy the whole windows program which i herd costs about 400$? i find this hard to belive
Compatiblepoker said:Nah it's not all that expensive. If you want like Word, Excel and stuff like that then you will need the professional edition. The basic Home edition is as low as $100. Professional I believe is around $300.
I think Pro or Home is same in terms of stability. The main difference is Pro has more network features and other extras, as users for Home may not really need those features to begin with. (I use both Home and Pro on different machines, along with Macs).BiikeMike said:Pro is more stable, and more powerful.
YS2003 said:I think Pro or Home is same in terms of stability. The main difference is Pro has more network features and other extras, as users for Home may not really need those features to begin with. (I use both Home and Pro on different machines, along with Macs).
Just so you know, for Windows XP to work with bootcamp, it HAS TO BE Service Pack 2 (SP2)strider42 said:You can't run windows with having, well, windows. So yes, you have to buy windows to do it legally. Cost of windows depends on exactly which version you are getting. Not sure of the prices off hand, but the home edition starts at less than what you quoted. You could look up the price of a retail copy of windows XP in about 10 seconds if you are really interested. A quick look on amazon shows the professional edition at about 280 bucks brand new. used copies or the home edition would be a lot less than that.
Not sure how else you think this could possibly work.
Edit, you may want to also check out http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ kind of tells you exactly what you want to know.
tombarnes said:Just so you know, for Windows XP to work with bootcamp, it HAS TO BE Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Macer said:It does not have to be service pack 2. You could techincally install windows 98 or 2000 and XP sp1(not an upgrade version) then just update 98 or 2000 to xp. You can't install an upgrade version of XP first as the eject button on the keyboard does not work so you can't spit out the cd to pop in win 98 or 2000. If you do not have sp2, make your partition through boot camp then at the end when it asks to start loading windows select restart mac OS X instead. Then stick in you windows 98, 2000 or XP sp1 and hold down c so the mac boots up from your windows disk. Please do remember to install on drive c, but this shouldn't be hard to figure out as it will be the size of the parttion you created with boot camp. Then when it has formated the drive and installed the necesssary files also remeber to hold the option(alt) button when the mac reboots or it will load OS X and not finish off the windows install. When 98 or 2000 has been installed stick in your xp upgrade disc and update to xp. Then download all the up dates. If you just install XP sp1 just download all the updates when done to sp2. Also note that the driver apple provide are only for xp. Hope this helps someone.
etoiles said:I read that XP Pro supports multi-processors, while XP Home only supports a single processor. Is a dual core considered a single processor or two separate ones ? Will there be a peformance hit if you use XP Home instead of Pro on a Core Duo ?
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