Macbook and Vista or XP

SoundTheSurrender

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As much as I love using OS X I am in a hard spot again. I just joined a game development club and we will be developing for XBOX games using XNA. I set up Parallels and windows XP but visual studio runs really slow.

I'm thinking about reformatting and installing Vista or XP but I did this before and there were some annoying issues. XP never felt "right" on my Macbook. Sometimes when I shut the lid it would still be awake, sometimes I got a blue screen of death, windows updates would fail, fans would go crazy over nothing. I never had a kernel panic error on Leopard or any issues that caused trouble.

I'm a one OS type of person, I can't dual boot, it just doesn't work for me. I want to play music and do everything within one OS. I'm thinking about trying XP 32 or Vista Business 32 but I'm just wondering if you guys have had the same issues as me?

My Macbook is a 1.83 Ghz Core2Duo, 2 gbs of ram and a 200 GB 7200 RPM drive.
 

Kmax82

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Yea.. I understand your predicament. I can't stand moving between two OS installs. Even moving between computers is super annoying to me, as stuff will be out of place, etc...

I hadn't noticed any major issues with XP, but I haven't run Vista in Bootcamp. Also, I currently only use XP in Bootcamp for light gaming, so I probably haven't noticed any show stopping operational bugs with that.
 

Injury

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I play BF2 on my MBP all the time. Dunno how things are outside of that, though.
 

secretanchitman

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i understand....i was the same way, but i just need windows if i need to run a windows specific app or i take my laptop to a LAN where windows is the gaming platform of choice.

bottom line for me is that i use osx for everything except games and windows specific applications.