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Vista on a MacBook Pro

Marc Orchant got the Vista install disk working with a MacBook Pro and Boot Camp. What was his secret? Well, he just inserted a Vista disk instead of a Windows XP disk. There are also reports that Boot Camp supports various distros of Linux.
Update: Well, it looks like the Vista install process works, but Vista itself? Not so much. So, you can install Vista on an Intel Mac but you just can't run it.. much like a PC. I kid, I kid.

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dogfriend said 3:08PM on 4-06-2006
Vista = XP SP4
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Joshua Ochs said 3:15PM on 4-06-2006
Does anyone know how Apple pulled off the partitioning on the fly? I'd love to be able do this as needed (add a Ubuntu partition, a Vista partition, etc).
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Stephen Arnold said 3:15PM on 4-06-2006
Now, when can we expect some benchmark tests on this? Adobe, various gaming, it all needs to be tested. But this is phenomenal news; I may never own a PC again.
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Gordon Werner said 3:26PM on 4-06-2006
Multiple OS's on Mac Hardware ... very cool.
What is the footprint of XP on a mac? i.e. how much RAM does it need to run and how many GB odes it consume on the HD?
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LD said 3:37PM on 4-06-2006
Apple got Vista to boot on an EFI system before Microsoft...
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Ian said 4:25PM on 4-06-2006
Did you even look at the guys blog? He updated it 3 hours ago saying Vista was a no go. (Not to mention some guys on the MacRumors forum posted this info last night) I guess your quest for highest post count got in the way of actual reading.
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Brendan said 4:28PM on 4-06-2006
No video what ? Please do videos next time ! Thanks
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Scott McNulty said 4:34PM on 4-06-2006
Ian, you'll notice that Marc's followup post was posted 7 minutes after my post (ZDNet is on West Coast time, TUAW is on East Coast time). Hence, I did read his blog, but I didn't see the update until you pointed it out to me.
Thanks for the civil comment which was only meant to be helpful!
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Guillermo said 6:00PM on 4-06-2006
Installs but doesn't run? I guess that qualifies the MacBook Pro as "Vista Capable".
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shane said 6:30PM on 4-06-2006
Enough with the BOOT CAMP... I thought today was the ANTI-BootCamp day.
Shane
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