What the Boot Camp Windows install doesn't support

Just a bit of information from my testing. I downloaded the ATI Hydrovision Drivers and these have improved Direct 3D performance no end. They seem to be ok running games, usual visualisations in Winamp which ran "OK" before and now run "Very Well"

Apart from that though everythignn else seems ok

Has anyone had problems using a MacBook Pro with xp loaded and using a 30" apple cinema display? When I restart into win xp everything goes blank. The MacBook Pro turns its screen off and nothing ever appears on the Cinema Display. In order toregain my system I have to open the laptop and hold the power key down for 10 seconds and then it will reboot into Win, THEN I can attach the 30" display on the fly and all works well...

I don't understand how everybody is so worried about viruses bringing down Windows so quickly. First of all, unless you format the Windows XP partition in FAT32, XP doesn't see the OS X partition, and therefore can't add to or modify the contents of it. Second, I agree with Jay C. in that you have to be really stupid to download a virus or trojan bad enough to make Windows unusable or to damage hardware.

Just installed Windows XP Professional and it boots faster and runs smoother than my HP.

Thrilled at last I can run any Windows software programme on my Mac without the second rate emulation programmes that preceeded Boot camp. Some software I need for work is only available for XP. As for multiplatform software, I will always use my Mac!

Well done Apple

Installed XP on my new IMAC and am having problems getting XP to recognize Airport and to install the drivers for it. I loaded the Mac Driver Disk as instructed, and even tried to download it again and load this again. Drivers for Airport don't seem to be there.
Any idea's? Can't go on the internet from XP side without Airport working.

Thanks anyone for your ideas!

Aron

Well there are a few programs that run only on XP that I now can run on my Mac. I installed this on my iiMac because I wanted the option to run it, when I wanted it.

Another possibility opened up by this move is yellow box. Way back fifteen years ago, when Mac OS X was still called Rhapsody, Apple had a concept called Yellow box. That is, Apple would provide a premiere development system for both Windows and Macintosh programs on the same machine.

This is looking increasingly more likely; it might even be native inside the Leopard version of Xcode. Most of the technical reasons standing in the way have been overcome with the move to Intel. That would mean that both Windows and Mac software would cost the same; perhaps, it would be in a FatBinary DVD that would run on either system. This would be a boon for the developers to have one machine that covers both OS's with just one DVD to sell.

Also, it would be transparent to the users who wouldn't have to worry that they were getting compatible software. And Apple would sell many more computers to software developers and to the schools. The argument that schools have to buy Windows computers to maintain the leading edge would fly out the window, because Mac's do both.

Hooray, this way one can run Photoshop at native speed now!

There is a small but intensely interested group who will be following this development closely: all of the FrameMaker for Mac users who were shut out of Adobe's ludicrously incompetent market analysis but who may now be able to continue to work with FrameMaker without having to pray for hell to freeze over again if Adobe were to throw out its corporate weasels and do the Mac OS X upgrade as they should.

This group may not be large, but it comprises a fascinating bunch of tech writers, translators, and publishers from organizations including Microsoft, Apple, Harley-Davidson, and a number of other top tech and industrial companies. Since Intel on Mac doesn't support Classic, this appears to be a nice way for Apple to allow their own documentation people to be able to keep using FrameMaker while upgrading to the new systems.

Hopefully, someone will be able to test the Boot Camp XP installation with the latest FrameMaker for Windows to see what the results are.

With regard to the unacceptable security issues with Windows, I suspect most of these users will never connect their Windows XP on Macs to the Internet. Problem neatly avoided. Windows is real secure as long as you don't connect it to a network ;-)

I know much of it is joking... but I haven't had an anti-virus or anti-spyware installed on my XP system in 4 years. No problems, no issues. The trick?

Ditch IE and Outlook and use Firefox and Thunderbird (or gmail). Your virus/spyware worries will dry up as long as you're not being a complete tool and accepting weird files via AIM or something.

In any event, I don't get the Apple community's xenophobia about people running XP side by side. If people prefer OS X it'll only give them a reason to switch and see how wonderful X is compared XP. Running side by side will only encourage both Apple and Microsoft to continue to step the game up.