iMac and Vista

[aviwil]

I understand that the iMac works with MS Vista - does anyone have any experience with this ? Or would one just be better off getting a PC if they wanted Vista ?

 

[timswim78]

Originally posted by: aviwil
I understand that the iMac works with MS Vista - does anyone have any experience with this ? Or would one just be better off getting a PC if they wanted Vista ?

As long as a Mac has an Intel processor, it can run Windows XP or Vista. Read more about it here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html

It's very simple to use.

 

[aviwil]

Thanks timswim78 - it sounds fatntastic - just sometimes in reality , it doesn't turn out that way . Was interested to know if anyone actually had hands-on experience with this .

 

[TheStu]

I installed Vista on my MacBook.... works as advertised. The only issue I have with it (which you wouldn't have on an iMac) is that there is no tap clicking on teh trackpad, and scrolling kind of sucks on the trackpad... but again, you wouldn't have that problem.

 

[Pabster]

Boot Camp has x64 drivers now too. Vista x64 with Leopard ... goodness

 

[MajorMullet]

I installed Vista Home Premium or whatever it's called Edition on my wife's iMac (the slightly older, white model. Intel mac though). The install was pretty painless - you start the bootcamp application from the Utilities folder and follow the prompts. It will walk you through creating a new partition and such.

Once Vista is installed, the Leopard disc has all of the drivers to make everything work in Vista. Once you've installed both OSes you can set a default to boot into (OSX is still her default) or I believe you can have it bring up the screen every time to choose. If you want to bring up the screen with the OS choices you just hold down the Option key while it's booting and you pick between the two. Vista is very fast on the iMac and works flawlessly. And once it's set up it's so easy to switch between the two that even my barely computer literate wife can do it.

 

[secretanchitman]

see...you guys are lucky. i installed vista, and it was dog slow to begin with. then, my cd drive disappeared! so i just reformatted back to xp. but again..vista has some new bootloader or something so when installing xp, you have to delete both "partitions" vista made or else xp wont install properly. took me hours to figure out why i cant just do a simple reformat from vista to xp.

dammit, i really wanted vista on my mbp, but xp is just (and will always be) fine!

 

[Oil]

Originally posted by: Pabster
Boot Camp has x64 drivers now too. Vista x64 with Leopard ... goodness

Right now the x64 drivers are only for Mac Pros

 

[Kmax82]

For the limited amount of things that I use Windows for, I like having XP on my machine. It's a virtual installation and therefore I can get the install pretty small with XP. I have it down to around 1.5 GB right now, which is no where near what it would be with Vista. So for that reason alone I prefer XP.

Vista is nice though, and there are a few features which I'm glad that they added to the OS.

Back to topic, it does work fine on my MBP in both Bootcamp and Parallels/Fusion, so you should be fine with your iMac.

 

[aviwil]

Thanks everyone for your helpful replies .