is there a way to dual-boot with Vista beta 2? I have an MSDN license and downloaded it. Tried to install and it gets done, but on reboot gives errors. I've had no luck in dual booting. and it won't work in Parallels at all.
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jaxstate said:
True, but it took Apple 2 years in-between Panther and Tiger, and it took M$ 5 years to get from XP to Vista.
EDIT: Actually, it will be more like 6 years when Vista actually comes out.
Does VISTA allow hot corners?
I`d like to ask one thing bout that ALT+TAB function. Is there an option to activate this command with just hot corners? Coz it`s the hot corner which makes expose so easy and useful. If we still have to cycle through windows using ALT+TAB; I think it`s just another crap. A crap which is made to look better by covering it with fancy covers.
Can someone check n confirm if VISTA can use hot corners?
I`d like to ask one thing bout that ALT+TAB function. Is there an option to activate this command with just hot corners? Coz it`s the hot corner which makes expose so easy and useful. If we still have to cycle through windows using ALT+TAB; I think it`s just another crap. A crap which is made to look better by covering it with fancy covers.
Can someone check n confirm if VISTA can use hot corners?
You can dual boot, apparently you install vista on the windows xp partition. But when vista asks you which partition to install it on you have to delete the 200mb partition first. Then pick drive c: which would be your boot camp partition. Then after vista reboots you have to repair the vista partition. All the info is on OSx86.
I have Vista and OS X on a dual boot running perfectly here. I even managed to get full Aero Glass working - and perhaps, most surprising of all, I managed to get sound working from both speakers or headphones.
I would post a guide on what I did but I'm far too lazy. If enough people show an interest I'll get around to writing some basic step-by-steps.
Oh, 20" iMac by the way.
I would post a guide on what I did but I'm far too lazy. If enough people show an interest I'll get around to writing some basic step-by-steps.
Oh, 20" iMac by the way.
Not hard to get the sound working or the glass as the drivers for the video card and sound card are built into vista. The only things that didn't work when i installed it were the airport card and the bluetooth, oh i forgot the isight aswell. Everything else seemed perfect. I also thought it was aload of microsoft crap again.
jaxstate said:
I don't understand the question
I guess it is a positive thing that Mac users are getting more frequent upgrades, and a negative thing that Windows users have to wait so long between (seemingly) small upgrades. (Although I'm sure M$ did some stuff other than put new clothes on XP)
And, it is also positive that the frequent OS X upgrades work properly, so I would say the frequent upgrades is positive for me.
I was just curious on how others feel. I know some people who despise the long wait between Windows OS releases. I also know some people who felt they were throwing out money for minor upgrades for OSX releases.
Copland said:I don't understand the question
I guess it is a positive thing that Mac users are getting more frequent upgrades, and a negative thing that Windows users have to wait so long between (seemingly) small upgrades. (Although I'm sure M$ did some stuff other than put new clothes on XP)
And, it is also positive that the frequent OS X upgrades work properly, so I would say the frequent upgrades is positive for me.
Macer said:
Run the Macintosh Drivers for WindowsXP executable for Boot Camp. While the setup programme is running, wait for the Macintosh Drivers folder to appear in programme files (but be quick, it's only a temporary folder) and make a copy of it.
You can then install the Airport and Bluetooth drivers manually, as they're inside the Macintosh Drivers folder. Airport, I can guarantee works. Bluetooth I'm less sure about, but my BT keyboard works.
Thanks for the tip, but i have removed the beta version of vista as i thought i seen somewhere in vista that it was only valid for 2 weeks. Not sure if this is true or not. Anyway i removed it now because i can't be bothered messing around in 2 weeks sorting out my hard drive.
Without reading through all the posts, what does a thread called "windows vista" do under the topic "mac software"?
chaosbunny said:Without reading through all the posts, what does a thread called "windows vista" do under the topic "mac software"?
Errr hello. The discussion group is 'Windows on the Mac' and NOT 'Mac osX' or 'Mac Applications'....
imacintel said:How can I dual boot? I try holding C when I start up, ut I just get the apple symbol! I really wanna try Vista(please dont kill me
imacintel said:
Anyways, you have to remove the 200 meg EFI partition to get Vista to boot. You will still be able to boot OS X, but I'd suggest backing up first as this will cause problems in removing the Vista partition through Bootcamp.
You can try formatting the EFI partition first as hfs, as the vista boot loader tries to boot from the first FAT/NTFS partition, and the EFI partition is formatted as FAT
Copland said:I don't understand the question
I guess it is a positive thing that Mac users are getting more frequent upgrades, and a negative thing that Windows users have to wait so long between (seemingly) small upgrades. (Although I'm sure M$ did some stuff other than put new clothes on XP)
And, it is also positive that the frequent OS X upgrades work properly, so I would say the frequent upgrades is positive for me.
you see I have a different view. I think apple updates it OS way to fast and M$ is taking way to long.
I think apple really needs to slow down it OS releases because by the time programs and developers adjust to a new OS the next one already out. (like by the time they really make get adjusted to tiger Lion will be out) Remeber some software is being develope for over a year for the big stuff. So lets say they start working on a project now that will take them 6-9 months to make they never really have time to get it set up for tiger and figure out the bugs there and then boom lion comes out and now they have the orginal program bugs to fix on top of the new bugs that come into play switching over to lion making it harder to figure out where the problems are.
That being said I think apple should double the ammount of time bettween new OS (to 3 years) and M$ needs to cut there in half (to 3 years). That is a good middle ground. 1 year to learn the new OS. 1 year to make software than works and 1 year to use the stuff before having to adjust.