Windows Vista on my MacBook Pro (because I'm an idiot)

it all seems like a bit of headache just to get Vista installed.
Leopard will be released around the same time, will anyone be dual booting then?
but I guess a new OS is always fun to poke around in (even if it is microsoft)

anyone with vista, what is the built in spyware/AV etc protection like?

Windows on a Mac?! YUK!

Although I have to admit that I am waiting for a way to run MSIE6 flawlessly in Mac OS X to test my web designs.

I can't seem to get past 98% It tells me that I have an 800700017 error and it can't copy a file. I have restored my Macbook and tried again, and same thing. I didn't back up my iso of the vista image, so I'm downloading again, to try and burn it again. Anyone else have the same problem?

@Ryan

I'm also getting this message, I saw in a forum that maybe it's because you have less than 10 gigs of space in your window's partition. Maybe...

I was checking an OSX86 project post that explains how to restore your EFI partition so you can delete your Windows Vista partition via Bootcamp and/or perfor Firmware upgrades.
WARNING: THERE'S NO GUARANTEE THAT THIS INSTRUCTIONS ARE NOT TO CAUSE DAMAGE TO YOUR INFORMATION

Boot in the installation CD in single user mode, then

a ) Type: gpt add -b 40 -i 1 -s 409600 -t efi /dev/disk0
b ) Press enter.
c ) Type: reboot
d ) Press enter. (Your system will reboot, but you must now again enter install DVD single-user mode, using the instructions above)

e ) Type: newfs_msdos -F 32 /dev/disk0s1
f ) Press enter.
g ) Type: reboot
h ) Press enter. (Your system will reboot, and the process is complete.)

Source: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=14448&st=20

ok, i tried doing this on my macbook but after selecting the CORRECT partion i got htis message

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/2618/picture5fu.jpg

any suggestions on what it means/what i should do to fix this?

So I did it, and Vista is running fine - but when I boot into OS X, I still see the 200MB "EFI" partition on my desktop. Is that supposed to be there? Or did I somehow manage to get Vista to install without deleting the EFI partition?

If you really want to be specific, Vista is built on top of Windows Server 2003, which in turn involved major changes to the Windows architecture. It's not a complete rewrite by any means, but it's not just a slight tweak of XP, either.

@bill

Vista isn't built on unix, its still part of the NT family and as such yup, its the same old windows.

ok. i'm really getting sick of hearing people say that Vista is nothing more than XP with skins, widgets. I hate microsoft & windows. i would never install it on my mac but i must say this. Vista is a revolution for Microsoft in a way. It's built on top of Unix. It's not the same old windows. Microsoft however, it's always so behind. Mac did this with X in 2000.