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Bootcamp Vista?

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otispunkmeyer

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so i have been thinking of buying a 20inch iMac for a while now. if everything stays as is (financially) i plan to purchase one through my university toward the end of march.

2.33Ghz core 2 duo, 2gig of ram, 256mb X1600XT, 250Gb hard disk etc. as a package the iMac is exactly what i am looking for, dont want a laptop, but i want something easy and simple....iMac is those things, plus i wanted a change from windows.

just been browsing the Vista Rules thread, impressive stuff i must say. so i am going to ask the question.


will i be able to dual boot windows Vista on a Mac like you could XP? (i will actually need to use windows since some of my engineering programs dont work on OSX)

i mean i cant see why not? the spec's are very good and enough to run vista in all its glory.
 
It'll probably work. Bootcamp was supposed to have gotten Vista support a while ago.

May be some lingering issues with driver support for the Mac-specific hardware features, like 'isight', but I don't know that for a fact.
 
interesting, i may be able to get the best of both worlds here. if it does work i might spring for the bigger hard disk since vista will take up a nice slice.

the imac's got built in wifi and BT too, hopefully those should still work, well the wifi at least. iSights not such a major problem because you can get MSN for OSX. ill probably just keep hold of my copy of XP pro though. i really only intend on firing up windows for those times when i have no choice. general computing work will be done in OSX.

i do want to try vista though! its sounds pretty sweet
 
as far as I know there isn't support for things like the eject button on the mac keyboard - but this will surely change soon. I think the main stuff (WiFi/BT etc) will be fine
 
If your not going to use Windows for games then you might as well stick with XP and use Parrellels (the VM). Vista EULA forbids using VMs unless your using business or ultimate.

That way you can run XP on your OS X desktop as just another application. The only reason you'd realy need to dual boot Windows when running OS X (or realy Linux for that matter) is for 3d acceleration for playing games or need the best performance possible for things like video editing and such. And of course if you want to check out Areo on Vista then you'd have to dual boot to get that.
 
Originally posted by: drag
If your not going to use Windows for games then you might as well stick with XP and use Parrellels (the VM). Vista EULA forbids using VMs unless your using business or ultimate.

That way you can run XP on your OS X desktop as just another application. The only reason you'd realy need to dual boot Windows when running OS X (or realy Linux for that matter) is for 3d acceleration for playing games or need the best performance possible for things like video editing and such. And of course if you want to check out Areo on Vista then you'd have to dual boot to get that.
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well ill need to be running 3D cad packages most likely (NX3/4, solidedge and one of my favourites for quick 3D work... google sketch up) parallels will be good for when i need to be using matlab (requires no 3D functionality) but with Vista Home premium at £70 for the OEM version then it seems like a good oppertunity to try both OSX and the new Windows.

only question is 32 or 64bit? core 2's can do 64bit cant they? is OSX 64bit?

im a sucker for eye candy so really i just wanna get all happy over 3d windows and glass effects, and i love the way you can put post it notes on your screen in OSX
 
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