Windows Version for Boot Camp

[owensdj]

Will Boot Camp dual booting work OK on a Mac no matter what the version of Windows XP used? For example, both Retail & OEM and both Professional and Home? Does Apple support Vista yet? Thank you for any info you can give me.

 

[Keitero]

Both retail and OEM will work with Boot Camp. Also, Vista works fine as well. I've been using Vista Business since the RTM release of BC without any issues.

 

[Parasitic]

If you don't have a Mac Pro then "officially" you can only use 32-bit (x86) of Windows with boot camp. 64-bit versions will install however and you can get boot camp drivers for x64 from torrent.

 

[Injury]

Pretty sure you'll be okay as long as you have SP2 or better.

Essentially bootcamp will make a partition for your windows install and you'll restart with the XP disc in the drive. After this it'll go into the blue-screened installer just like it does on a PC.

It's pretty painless but a couple of times I had to run the drivers installer a couple times in between restarts to get it to install all the drivers. Dunno if that has been worked out or not.

 

[TheStu]

It will take Windows XP SP2 or better.

So that means

XP Home SP3
Vista Ultimate
XP Pro SP2
Vista Home Premium SP1
etc
etc
etc

 

[Keitero]

Vista x64 works fine on the latest MBP without any issues. Santa Rosa (3rd gen) has issues. Same with Merom (2nd gen).