Boot Camp Rocks!!!!
Using Boot Camp, I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate with Office 2007 and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition and couldn't be happier. Vista runs very fast and I haven't encountered any problems. All updates for all products were installed successfully. Now I can concentrate on learning Leopard and QuickSilver as this MacBook Pro is the first Mac I have purchased. Don't need a crappy PC anymore!!!
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Using Boot Camp, I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate with Office 2007 and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition and couldn't be happier. Vista runs very fast and I haven't encountered any problems. All updates for all products were installed successfully. Now I can concentrate on learning Leopard and QuickSilver as this MacBook Pro is the first Mac I have purchased. Don't need a crappy PC anymore!!!
And if you choose to get Parallels - you can run all of your PC software, WITHOUT re-starting your mac.
I use it, and love it - for the most part.
Skip
Will be putting it on my MBP soon.
Haven't seen Parallels but have seen Fusion in action and it is excellent.
Will be putting it on my MBP soon.
More information on Fusion please. Who, what, where to get it, check it out and so forth?
Skip
Thanks I found info on it. From what I just read, Parallels is ranked better over all.
I'm thinking / hoping Apple up-dates Bootcamp to run like Parallels - hell Apple should just buy Parallels, and stop farting around.
Boot Camp is still a wonderful solution, for running native right on the Mac. It's still a nice way to go.
Can anyone who has used both parallels and bootcamp testify to the amount of performance hit there is using parallels since windows isn't running natively? (I use XP, not Vista if it matters.)
Significantly slower in Parallels. Parallels does not support 3D and does very poorly with anything video related. It is miles slower - if you're just checking your email, browsing, chatting with friends, maybe programming and that sort of thing you should be fine, however. Parallels starts up insanely fast though.
Using Boot Camp, I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate with Office 2007 and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition and couldn't be happier. Vista runs very fast and I haven't encountered any problems. All updates for all products were installed successfully. Now I can concentrate on learning Leopard and QuickSilver as this MacBook Pro is the first Mac I have purchased. Don't need a crappy PC anymore!!!
What exactly is Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition? I saw this before. How does it differ from Visual Studio 2005?
Dave
Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition is tightly integrated with Microsoft's Team Foundation Server which my company uses to control .NET application versioning. When you launch Team Edition, it prompts you for the Team Foundation Server sign-in. The Team Foundation Explorer can then be displayed and used in the VS 2005 IDE where you can check in/out .NET solutions/projects.
Thanks for the info.
Dave
More information on Fusion please. Who, what, where to get it, check it out and so forth?
Skip
Thanks I found info on it. From what I just read, Parallels is ranked better over all.
I'm thinking / hoping Apple up-dates Bootcamp to run like Parallels - hell Apple should just buy Parallels, and stop farting around.
Check out Amazon for Fusion. They have it for $62.49 minus a $20 rebate = $42.49.