Mac OS to Windows OS

[hennessy1]

I am looking into getting a macbook pro and I was wondering is it easy to just get the mac os off it and put on an xp or vista os?

 

[The Green Bean]

yes it's easy. There are plenty of tutorials that you find on google.

P.S - your title is misleading. Please fix it.

 

[hennessy1]

i see that with bootcamp but can I have only windows installed on there? like no mac os at all?

 

[TheStu]

Why?

Why buy the MacBook Pro if you are not going to use OS X? You can get any number of other laptops that are comparable in specification for the same cost or less.

So, I say again. Why?

 

[hennessy1]

no ive looked the mac book pro has the best notebook graphics card and the highest factory clocked cpu. you can find either or at another vendor but not both.

 

[TheStu]

You can install just Vista or XP onto it and it /should/ work fine, but ultimately I would recommend that you leave OS X on there on a small, maybe 20GB partition just so you can get a feel for it. Who knows maybe you will like it better than XP or Vista, and then you will actually be making the best of your purchase.

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: hennessy1
no ive looked the mac book pro has the best notebook graphics card and the highest factory clocked cpu. you can find either or at another vendor but not both.

That's definitely not true.

Alienware will def. top it, and some of the high end dell xps and hp's should as well. Let's not forget voodoopc. Sony might be a choice as well.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: hennessy1
no ive looked the mac book pro has the best notebook graphics card and the highest factory clocked cpu. you can find either or at another vendor but not both.

Thats definately not true, the hardware is 'average to above-average' but definately not not leading edge.

 

[hennessy1]

well idk where your looking but none of those have any of the new dx10 cards. And voodoopc was the only one with a high cpu but that requires having a desktop cpu inside not a mobile cpu. and for the price of the voodoopc notebooks I'd hope they release a refresh with the dx10 cards. (cpu im refering to is the intel ones)

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: bsobel
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: hennessy1
no ive looked the mac book pro has the best notebook graphics card and the highest factory clocked cpu. you can find either or at another vendor but not both.</end quote></div>

Thats definately not true, the hardware is 'average to above-average' but definately not not leading edge.

How do you figure not the leading edge?

It has the latest Chipset, Santa Rosa. It has the fastest Core 2 Duo Mobile, 2.4Ghz. It has the fastest DX10 Mobile card, 8600GT. Finally it has the largest LED backlit screen in the industry at 15.4".

Add to that all the other little things you get that either no one else has or they don't advertise. Like the Sudden Motion Sensor to protect the hard drive in event of a fall, backlit keys for night-time typing, an ambient light sensor to automatically adjust the backlighting of the keys and screen, magnetic connector to ensure that neither the notebook, or the power connector are likely to be damaged if you trip over it.

I would say that they are leading edge right now. I am sure that within a few months Dell, o HP, or Alienware, or CompanyXYZ is going to have a notebook that beats the pants off of the MBP.... probably by doubling things or making them larger (2 graphics cards, or higher resolution screen) but, at this time, IMHO the MBP is the best bang for the buck if one is looking for a laptop with as much and fastest of the current hardware as possible.

 

[ITJunkie]

I would agree with Stu...leave OS X on there and add XP/Vista to it using either bootcamp or parallels. It's like getting 2 laptops for the price of one that way 🙂

With bootcamp you boot into either OS. With Parellels you "virtualize" the second OS...

 

[Nothinman]

Like the Sudden Motion Sensor to protect the hard drive in event of a fall

You mean like IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads have shipped with for years as well?

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote> Like the Sudden Motion Sensor to protect the hard drive in event of a fall </end quote></div>

You mean like IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads have shipped with for years as well?

I guess, I don't have a thinkpad and am therefore unfamiliar with their nuances. I know that other machines have them, but few advertise it, so it is hard for the consumer to know.

 

[Nothinman]

I guess, I don't have a thinkpad and am therefore unfamiliar with their nuances. I know that other machines have them, but few advertise it, so it is hard for the consumer to know.

IBM used to run commercials with guys dropping their notebooks advertising their "Hard Disk Active Protection System". I don't watch much TV though so I don't know if Lenovo still does after they took over that business.

 

[TMoney468]

I don't think it's possible to have only a Windows partition on the MBP right? Don't you always have to have a Mac OS partition as well for bootcamp to work?

 

[TheStu]

You can install boot camp so you can then burn the drivers, then when you go to install Windows, you can format the drive.