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Macer

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Installed windows vista beta 2 on my imac this mornining, and it just feels like xp with souped up visuals. This is windows xp anyway isn't it but with a few bells and whistles. I will stick with OS X.
 
Macer said:
Installed windows vista beta 2 on my imac this mornining, and it just feels like xp with souped up visuals. This is windows xp anyway isn't it but with a few bells and whistles. I will stick with OS X.
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i've yet to use Vista beta on our work machines - so your saying it's just a eye candied up version of Xp :D that figures with microsoft

has it crashed yet though:rolleyes:
 
It has actually, the first time i restarted vista it froze on the password screen. I wouldn't read too much into it thought as it is only a beta and it was running on my imac. It looks miles better than win xp, but as you say knowing microsoft it will probably be just as bad as windows xp.
 
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It has actually, the first time i restarted vista it froze on the password screen. I wouldn't read too much into it thought as it is only a beta and it was running on my imac. It looks miles better than win xp, but as you say knowing microsoft it will probably be just as bad as windows xp.
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I thought Vista couldn't yet be loaded onto a Mac. Tell us how you did it.
 
I wanted to reinstall OS X, but actually booted windows instead. So stuck the windows xp sp2 cd in my imac and held C. The imac them started the windows installation. I made one ntfs partition from the windows xp disc, when asked and done a quick NTFS format. When the imac rebooted i kept my finger on the eject button, then i sawpped the windows disc for the vista beta 2. Then just follwed the onscreen instructions. This was not a dual boot solution, but i will try that tonight when i put OS X back on.
 
You don't need boot camp. Bootcamp is only a tool to partition the hard drive and create a set of drivers for windows xp sp2. Vista had all drivers apart from the airport and bluetooth. Haven't tried getting them to work yet, as after i installed the macintosh drivers for xp sp2 and restarted the imac vista froze at the login screen. And at the moment i am on my imac G5.
 
Here are some picture for anyone that is intrested
 

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To be honest, it is windows xp with updates to the software within xp, like media player and internet explorer.
 

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one more of the new feature
 

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i think the new ALT+TAB thing is "nice enough", but it's just come along at the wrong time. it should have been years ago, maybe when expose came out :rolleyes:

but it's microsoft. that'd never have happened. ;)
 
bigandy said:
i think the new ALT+TAB thing is "nice enough", but it's just come along at the wrong time. it should have been years ago, maybe when expose came out :rolleyes:

but it's microsoft. that'd never have happened. ;)
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Forgive me for missing it, but what's new about alt-tab? I've been using that to switch applications since Windows '95. have they changed the functionality of this, or just changed the visual layout of it?

Thanks,
Dylan

Edit: Maybe nevermind. Is the picture above your post the "new" alt-tab? If so, I'm not sure I like that. I'm more of a text guy. How's the old saying go...A word is worth a thousand pictures...or something like that? ;)
 
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i think the new ALT+TAB thing is "nice enough", but it's just come along at the wrong time. it should have been years ago...
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I'm not impressed, having found exposé useful for a long time. I can only think that pointlessly-obscured stacked windows will impress only those people who have blindly stuck to the late 90s user-interactive offerings that XP has in spades.

I really can wait before my work pc is blessed with this gumph.:(
 
It is not alt and tab, it is the windows button and tab, which is the new expose lookalike. The old alt and tab is still there and does the same thing as it did before but with a nicer GUI.
 
Macer said:
It has actually, the first time i restarted vista it froze on the password screen. I wouldn't read too much into it thought as it is only a beta and it was running on my imac. It looks miles better than win xp, but as you say knowing microsoft it will probably be just as bad as windows xp.
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LOL- How predictable of Windoze. :rolleyes: :D
 
Two ways - by either becoming part of the Microsoft Developer's Network or by getting it through other not so legal ways. But, apparantley a public beta should be released soon, a bit like the new Office Beta.
 
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