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windows vista on boot camp
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You should be able to install Vista on your Mac, but Apple doesn't provide the final drivers for it now. I've heard that Microsoft already has drivers for whatever Mac that you are installing it on. You just have to go to Windows Update to get the drivers that you are missing. I'm waiting to get my copy of Vista so that I can confirm it.
Meanwhile, what Mac are you trying to install it on?
I am running it now with no issues. Ultimate + MBP C2D. You have to manually install the drivers though, as apple does not supply the vista ones....otherwise its running PURRRFECT for me.
Enjoy!
edit- should mention that my sound stutters..still working on that..seems like a driver issue.
Enjoy!
edit- should mention that my sound stutters..still working on that..seems like a driver issue.
xp drivers mostly work on vista.
theres a commandline argument u can use on the mac driver setup to get it to extract the drivers from the file.
Install Macintosh Drivers for Windows XP.exe" /A /v
does anybody know if ultimate will work for a macbook core duo 2Gb ram. post a pic if you can. i would like to know thanks
MacBook Core Duo Vista
Vista on a MacBook core duo (Rev A) with 2GHz/2GB is a dream. I've been running on this machine for the past 6 months and have had good luck. (I'm one of the devs on vista if anyone is wondering.) And now I can finally post this. Here's what works and what doesn't:
1) Graphics: there is a wddm driver for the GMA 950. That means that if you have more than 512MB of RAM you get glass. It's in the Vista Box. The brightness control causes issues with UAC. It will ask for permission to launch whenever you log in.
2) Sound: The sigmatel driver included in the Vista Box works, but it takes a small registry hack. A key has to be added. Alternately if you unpack apples drivers the sigmatel driver in apple's drivers works without the hack.
3) Networking: Both wired and wireless in box.
4) Trackpad: the default trackpad driver for Vista works, but you don't get any advanced features (ie. no two finger click). You can install the apple trackpad driver and get the same functionality as in XP. There's a catch. The driver doesn't come out of sleep properly. Apple knows about this. I've been using a program called AutoHotkey in the interim.
5) Keyboard: apple keyboard support works great. No problems.
6) Bluetooth: getting this working is a bit of a trick, but it does work. Both my mighty mouse and my Motorola E815 work in Vista with apple's bluetooth support. It must be installed manually through device manager.
Hope this helps everyone. I'll be keeping an eye on mac support from the inside ;-). I am proud of Vista and it's a solid OS. The first windows OS I can work on. It's well worth dual booting. On the note of hardware, Apple still has it down. The Mac is the best Windows machine to date
. Thanks. Post here and I'll try to keep checking back.
Vista on a MacBook core duo (Rev A) with 2GHz/2GB is a dream. I've been running on this machine for the past 6 months and have had good luck. (I'm one of the devs on vista if anyone is wondering.) And now I can finally post this. Here's what works and what doesn't:
1) Graphics: there is a wddm driver for the GMA 950. That means that if you have more than 512MB of RAM you get glass. It's in the Vista Box. The brightness control causes issues with UAC. It will ask for permission to launch whenever you log in.
2) Sound: The sigmatel driver included in the Vista Box works, but it takes a small registry hack. A key has to be added. Alternately if you unpack apples drivers the sigmatel driver in apple's drivers works without the hack.
3) Networking: Both wired and wireless in box.
4) Trackpad: the default trackpad driver for Vista works, but you don't get any advanced features (ie. no two finger click). You can install the apple trackpad driver and get the same functionality as in XP. There's a catch. The driver doesn't come out of sleep properly. Apple knows about this. I've been using a program called AutoHotkey in the interim.
5) Keyboard: apple keyboard support works great. No problems.
6) Bluetooth: getting this working is a bit of a trick, but it does work. Both my mighty mouse and my Motorola E815 work in Vista with apple's bluetooth support. It must be installed manually through device manager.
Hope this helps everyone. I'll be keeping an eye on mac support from the inside ;-). I am proud of Vista and it's a solid OS. The first windows OS I can work on. It's well worth dual booting. On the note of hardware, Apple still has it down. The Mac is the best Windows machine to date
. Thanks. Post here and I'll try to keep checking back.
thanks alot well i ran rc1 on my macbook and the drivers didnt really work. But besides that it looked nice. And finally a stable windows OS(hopefully)Vista on a MacBook core duo (Rev A) with 2GHz/2GB is a dream. I've been running on this machine for the past 6 months and have had good luck. (I'm one of the devs on vista if anyone is wondering.) And now I can finally post this. Here's what works and what doesn't:
1) Graphics: there is a wddm driver for the GMA 950. That means that if you have more than 512MB of RAM you get glass. It's in the Vista Box. The brightness control causes issues with UAC. It will ask for permission to launch whenever you log in.
2) Sound: The sigmatel driver included in the Vista Box works, but it takes a small registry hack. A key has to be added. Alternately if you unpack apples drivers the sigmatel driver in apple's drivers works without the hack.
3) Networking: Both wired and wireless in box.
4) Trackpad: the default trackpad driver for Vista works, but you don't get any advanced features (ie. no two finger click). You can install the apple trackpad driver and get the same functionality as in XP. There's a catch. The driver doesn't come out of sleep properly. Apple knows about this. I've been using a program called AutoHotkey in the interim.
5) Keyboard: apple keyboard support works great. No problems.
6) Bluetooth: getting this working is a bit of a trick, but it does work. Both my mighty mouse and my Motorola E815 work in Vista with apple's bluetooth support. It must be installed manually through device manager.
Hope this helps everyone. I'll be keeping an eye on mac support from the inside ;-). I am proud of Vista and it's a solid OS. The first windows OS I can work on. It's well worth dual booting. On the note of hardware, Apple still has it down. The Mac is the best Windows machine to date
another question how many gb would you really recommend. It worked fine for 30 Gb but still. should i get a bigger hard drive or what.?
HD Space
Well, for me, I went with the stock 60 Gig and things are a little tight with both OS's. But it all depends on what you plan to do with your machine. Personally, I'm looking to upgrade to a 160G 7200 RPM drive in the near future (it's a pretty easy upgrade if your so inclined). Go for a bigger drive if it's not too late.
Well, for me, I went with the stock 60 Gig and things are a little tight with both OS's. But it all depends on what you plan to do with your machine. Personally, I'm looking to upgrade to a 160G 7200 RPM drive in the near future (it's a pretty easy upgrade if your so inclined). Go for a bigger drive if it's not too late.
Mac Pro and Windows Vista
I've worked with Vista on a Mac Pro using boot camp and have not found it to be the easiest installation. Windows Vista has trouble being made the secondary partition on a secondary drive and will not allow you to install it from booting the DVD under certain conditions. A general workaround I found to any issues with Vista not being satisfied with the drive configuration is rather simple and also works if XP is already on the machine and it won't upgrade:
Personally, after working with Vista for a little while, I think I prefer Windows XP since I only use Windows for a few games and programs from time to time and don't need an OS that uses 512MB of RAM when it idles to do that. The performance hit of going from XP to Vista is similar to going from Mac OS 9.1 to Mac OS 10.0 and Vista can be almost as buggy in parts. The best bet is to wait for a little more optimization and patches. Besides, by then Boot Camp and Parallels will have much better native support for Vista.
I've worked with Vista on a Mac Pro using boot camp and have not found it to be the easiest installation. Windows Vista has trouble being made the secondary partition on a secondary drive and will not allow you to install it from booting the DVD under certain conditions. A general workaround I found to any issues with Vista not being satisfied with the drive configuration is rather simple and also works if XP is already on the machine and it won't upgrade:
- Install Windows XP (if not already on)
- Start Windows XP
- Open Vista installer from XP and do a custom install
- Have the installer leave the partitions intact, but move the XP stuff to a folder (Windows.old)
Personally, after working with Vista for a little while, I think I prefer Windows XP since I only use Windows for a few games and programs from time to time and don't need an OS that uses 512MB of RAM when it idles to do that. The performance hit of going from XP to Vista is similar to going from Mac OS 9.1 to Mac OS 10.0 and Vista can be almost as buggy in parts. The best bet is to wait for a little more optimization and patches. Besides, by then Boot Camp and Parallels will have much better native support for Vista.
I can also verify that Vista Ultimate runs perfectly on both my machines, an iMac C2D and a MBP CD. All hardware is found and drivers correctly installed and updated. I am using the localized Swedish version of Vista, and I had no issues with my Apple BT keyboard and mouse for the iMac, worked right out of the box. When I tried the english RTM version a couple of months ago, I had to have a USB keyboard during the installation. Also, everytime I booted into Vista, it could not find the BT keyboard. Had to switch off and on the keyboard every time.
However, I do experience the same issues as described above, lack of drivers for iSight and for right-click on the track pad on the MBP. Does anybody know if Apple will update BootCamp now when Vista is officially released, with new Vista drivers?
I have always used a mix of Windows machines and Macs, but Vista on the iMac C2D is the fastest PC I have had...
However, I do experience the same issues as described above, lack of drivers for iSight and for right-click on the track pad on the MBP. Does anybody know if Apple will update BootCamp now when Vista is officially released, with new Vista drivers?
I have always used a mix of Windows machines and Macs, but Vista on the iMac C2D is the fastest PC I have had...
Nope
Macbook Vram= 0mb (it uses shared memory)
Macbook RAM allocated to GMA950 under OSX = 64mb.
Macbbook RAM allocated to GMA950 under windows = upto 224MB depending on how much ram you have (you need 1gb or more for it to allocate 224mb)
Well... even MS runs vista on a mac... (on national tv demo)
http://atvs.vg.no/player/index.php?id=7334
http://atvs.vg.no/player/index.php?id=7334
"I am running it now with no issues. Ultimate + MBP C2D. You have to manually install the drivers though, as apple does not supply the vista ones....otherwise its running PURRRFECT for me."
Exactly the same here... (My sound doesn't studder though)
The Ambient Light Sensor even works with the display/backlight keyboard, with a little help from "input remapper" its actually kinda cool...
My airport didnt work, but i manually installed it by going to the "hardware manager" and telling it to search for drivers where i extracted them from the bootcamp cd...
Exactly the same here... (My sound doesn't studder though)
The Ambient Light Sensor even works with the display/backlight keyboard, with a little help from "input remapper" its actually kinda cool...
My airport didnt work, but i manually installed it by going to the "hardware manager" and telling it to search for drivers where i extracted them from the bootcamp cd...
Hey, so about the trackpad. Can you tell me how to get it to work? That'd be great if you could. Thanks
How compatible are xp programs with vista. could i run ProEngineer and mathcad for example? Or should I hold onto xp
Right on, same question.
In addition, I heard that the upgrade versions of Vista require XP to be ALREADY INSTALLED. You can't make a clean installation of Vista without XP already being installed. Is this true? And if so, Microsoft, why do you hate us users so?
Went from RC2 to ultimate today..running perfect. Audio still crankling,, not sure what that is about, and there is no right click on the trackpad (just using my mouse)....otherwise its perfect...apple just needs to update its drivers for vista and it will be even better...
Edit- Sounds works perfect now...has anyone figured out how to get the audio buttons to control the master volume? When I use the buttons it just changes the audio level on the keyboard control program and not the main sound on the MBP...any ideas?
Edit- Sounds works perfect now...has anyone figured out how to get the audio buttons to control the master volume? When I use the buttons it just changes the audio level on the keyboard control program and not the main sound on the MBP...any ideas?