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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Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Orchant/?p=63

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Marc Orchant got the Vista install disk working with a MacBook Pro and Boot Camp. What was his secret? Well, he just inserted a...

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Shane Hale

Enough with the BOOT CAMP... I thought today was the ANTI-BootCamp day.

Shane

April 06 2006 at 6:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Guillermo

Installs but doesn't run? I guess that qualifies the MacBook Pro as "Vista Capable".

April 06 2006 at 6:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Scott McNulty

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!

April 06 2006 at 4:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brendan Sheehan jnr

No video what ? Please do videos next time ! Thanks

April 06 2006 at 4:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ian

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.

April 06 2006 at 4:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Apple got Vista to boot on an EFI system before Microsoft...

April 06 2006 at 3:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gordon Werner

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?

April 06 2006 at 3:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stephen Arnold

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.

April 06 2006 at 3:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joshua Ochs

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).

April 06 2006 at 3:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dogfriend

Vista = XP SP4

April 06 2006 at 3:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply