New Vista build is Boot Camp friendly

A blog post that has risen through the digg ranks reports that a pre-RC1 release of Vista (build 5536) can now be installed easily on Intel Macs via Boot Camp. No more messy instructions, just a good clean install and (apparently) smooth running. Reports indicate that most of the fancy schmancy Aero effects are supported, even on a regular MacBook (Aero, for those who don't know, is a hardware-intensive new UI for Windows Vista with a lot of flashy effects and Transparency Everywhere™ technology).

Microsoft has announced a Release Candidate 1 of Vista for September, for which we believe another public rollout and serial code registration process will be available. Those who manage to get ahold of a copy of build 5536 will need a registration code from the recently-closed beta 2 offering in order to install it.

While we aren't quite sure how Microsoft worked around the EFI limitation in Vista (EFI support was axed along with many other features some time ago), but this Vista + Intel Macs development is good news for anyone who needs to build apps and test websites for Microsoft's new Windows version.

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Hadi

I got vista installed on my macbook. However the apple drivers sc fails...any ideas for finding drivers guys?

September 19 2006 at 1:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Adam

RC1 of vista is now avaliable to all those in the Vista Connect beta!!!

September 05 2006 at 11:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Greg

Wendy and Mike, did you guys load xp first to get rc1 to load? I can't get boot camp to recognize my vista disk.

August 31 2006 at 7:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Wendy

I would like to second that I'm running Vista RC1 on my Macbook Pro with absolutely no problems.

August 30 2006 at 11:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jimmie

I know it says that the drivers for Apple's keyboard isn't working, has anyone gotten them working? I have the newest drivers apple released with the latest bootcamp. Does the keyboard not work at all in Vista? Thanks.

August 30 2006 at 12:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mr. O

Hey Leonard,

Care to point out where OnMac.net covers Parallels & this build of Vista (or any Vista build)? I've been searching the site after your comment...and would love to see what you're referring to.

August 30 2006 at 10:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mike

I just finished installing Vista RC1 onto my Macbook Pro and its running amazing. I used the bootcamp drivers cd and my audio, video, networking are all functioning properly. It's very fast!

August 28 2006 at 6:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Julio

@ Jon

But they are still talking about the Beta 2 in that article... This article is talking about a totally different version that is not public... the pre-RC1. If you have tested both, which i have, you would see a huge difference in the two in speed, installation, stability, etc... a lot of bugs have been worked out. So even though that is from Wednesday, it's talking about the Beta 2. Especially since the build in this TUAW article wasn't released until friday. Even the name of the article you pointed to tells you this: "Windows Vista Beta 2 features bugs and blue screens." If you read the above article, you will see pre-RC1 (build 5536), which is not the Beta 2. I don't think i can be any clearer than that.

August 28 2006 at 5:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris

Bophojones,
Yes, it works with Parallels. Check out www.onmac.net for details.

Brendan,
Some of the Bootcamp's XP drivers may work wtih Vista and the clever people at ww.onmac.net may have some solutions, but there is no offical support at this time.

August 28 2006 at 2:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jonathan Kressaty

Ok, so if it works on boot camp, has anyone tried it with parallels?

August 28 2006 at 2:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply