More Drama Than an Episode of Montel
[ rakaur on Wed Apr 05 at 04:43 PM // category: apple, hardware, microsoft, software, technology ]
So, as I’m sure you all know, Apple released Boot Camp this morning, which is software that allows you to install XP natively on an Intel Mac. To be more precise, the firmware update they released just prior allows the BIOS emulation XP needs (in fact, the XP cd will boot and run fine without even touching Boot Camp). Boot Camp serves to make drivers and partitions for XP. First, it burns you a CD with (almost) all of the drivers Windows needs to operate on Apple hardware. Everything works, excluding the Apple Remote, ambient light sensor, sudden motion detector, and other minor things such as this. All the big stuff works: Airport, Bluetooth, the eject button, the trackpad (though I have yet to figure out how to right click in XP with just the trackpad on my MacBook Pro). Well, the trackpad kind of works. Scrolling, acceleration, etc do not.
So of course, I had to try it. Pictures (and a movie of it booting) are here. It’s the fastest XP’s ever been for me, but then I haven’t used it in ages. I installed it, and it got around to nagging me about antivirus and 38 Windows Updates and blah blah, so I promptly booted back into OS X and haven’t touched it again. I’ll probably delete it soon, as on an 80G drive I need those 10G back.
-- rakaur // 2006.04.05 @ 04:43 PM
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