Great News About Vista And MacBooks!

[Virtualball]

So I...leagally...got Vista Final and decided to install it on my 512 MB RAM 1.83 ghz MacBook today. GREAT NEWS- it comes with almost every driver preinstalled and now my MacBook supports Aero!!!!! DUDE!!!! WOOO!!!

Sorry if this was pre documented.

 

[fishkorp]

So I...leagally...got Vista Final and decided to install it on my 512 MB RAM 1.83 ghz MacBook today. GREAT NEWS- it comes with almost every driver preinstalled and now my MacBook supports Aero!!!!! DUDE!!!! WOOO!!!

Sorry if this was pre documented.

just curious where you legally got it from. it's not available to MSDN people until Friday and businesses/OEMs on the 30th.

 

[Virtualball]

Umm.... Bill Gates is my uncle? *shifty eyes*

 

[applemacdude]

it installs.. but it does not have every driver.. we will need to wait on apple to update bootcamp in order to have all the drivers..

 

[Gizmotoy]

it installs.. but it does not have every driver.. we will need to wait on apple to update bootcamp in order to have all the drivers..

What's missing? It appears Virtualball's installation is working fine.

 

[benthewraith]

Umm.... Bill Gates is my uncle? *shifty eyes*

Somehow I doubt if Bill was your uncle you'd be posting here.

 

[kalun]

just curious where you legally got it from. it's not available to MSDN people until Friday and businesses/OEMs on the 30th.

lol, sir you have to learn the difference between legal and "legal".

 

[Nym]

Wait, are we doing something wrong if we're ripping off Microsoft? didn't know that

 

[mcmadhatter]

just curious where you legally got it from. it's not available to MSDN people until Friday and businesses/OEMs on the 30th.

Oh i dind't know I could get it on friday with my MSDN subscription, happy days , i take it you get 9 "development installs" and 1 "non development install" as per every other downloads on msdn (or is this 1 non development install only applicable to Office? I do forget but anyway)

 

[Virtualball]

Somehow I doubt if Bill was your uncle you'd be posting here.

Umm.... hes my estranged unlce?

The only drivers that weren't preinstalled were the speakers, bluetooth and the keyboard, everything else was preinstalled.

 

[princealfie]

Unfortunately your Zune won't be working.

 

[Transeau]

Unfortunately your Zune won't be working.

Unfortunately?
Hell, that's a bonus!

 

[Macnoviz]

Umm.... hes my estranged unlce?

The only drivers that weren't preinstalled were the speakers, bluetooth and the keyboard, everything else was preinstalled.

I wouldn't really call that working.

But anyways, this is another argument for people that claim Microsoft is artificially pushing graphic limits to force hardware upgrades.

I wouldn't have thought Vista to run with aero on integrated graphics, though (wih 512 MB RAM total even)

 

[Virtualball]

I wouldn't really call that working.

But anyways, this is another argument for people that claim Microsoft is artificially pushing graphic limits to force hardware upgrades.

I wouldn't have thought Vista to run with aero on integrated graphics, though (wih 512 MB RAM total even)

Keyboard is just the sound/backlight keys, eject works. I don't really use/need bluetooth, and the sound can be installed by the mac os driver instaleler. It used to be that you need to install screen, sound, keyboard, bluetooth, mouse, eject button, etc. And on first boot, you get aero at full resolution! What could be better?

 

[Peace]

Just out of curiosity Virtualball.Did you happen to install the MacBook EFI firmware update before you installed Vista?

 

[bloodycape]

Unfortunately your Zune won't be working.

yeah it is a shame it does not support ums/msc. That is why I never will by and iPod no msc/ums support.

Just out of curiosity Virtualball.Did you happen to install the MacBook EFI firmware update before you installed Vista?

does that make a difference?

 

[Virtualball]

I'm running 10.4.6 so... no.

 

[72930]

Unfortunately your Zune won't be working.

I wouldn't say Zunes 'work', they just about get buy with XP.

 

[Peace]

yeah it is a shame it does not support ums/msc. That is why I never will by and iPod no msc/ums support.





does that make a difference?

Don't know.Thats why I asked

I'm running 10.4.6 so... no.

Well if you didnt update the firmware ( not the O/S ) guess that means MS put a driver in for the built-in iSight.

 

[QuarterSwede]

What could be better?

Not using Vista?

 

[retrospek]

Well if you didnt update the firmware ( not the O/S ) guess that means MS put a driver in for the built-in iSight.

I've just installed the RTM version of Vista on my Macbook (I'm a member of MSDN !)...

The iSight is NOT working on the Macbook with Vista. At least it isn't working on mine.. It shows the iSight in Device Manager but that is all it does.

Everything else appears to have worked fine (Bluetooth/Wireless etc)..

The only problems I've found so far (only installed 10 minutes ago) is that iSight doesn't work and the Trackpad doesn't allow two finger scrolling or right click.

Mark.

 

[Virtualball]

Oh, I never checked to use the iSight, but I know it shows up in Device Manager

All I have to say is, Very nice job microsoft, it may not do anything better but it sure as hell looks better. (BTW I got 3 BSoD yesterday ) But you can tell that a lot of it was ripped from OS X haha.