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Topic: "Boot Camp Public Beta" (Win OS on the Mac)
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
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Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 04-19-2006 12:32 PM
As far I can tell, Apple's Boot Camp has received pretty decent reviews. There are other ways one can hack an Intel-based Mac to run Windows. There's even one hack which will allow WindowsXP Media Center Edition to run. Apple's method is by far the most simple.
Boot Camp creates a Windows drivers disc for the Mac's video card, sound card and other stuff for you to use once you install your after market copy of Windows XP SP2. One review I saw suggested Boot Camp would only make a FAT32 partition for WinXP, but other reviews I have read indicate Boot Camp can make a NTFS formatted partition. Definitely go NTFS. FAT32 sucks.
The only drawbacks to Boot Camp is the iSight device on MacBook Pro will not run under Windows and the Front Row remote control won't work either.
Test results on Boot Camp show it runs WindowsXP as fast as any similarly equipped PC box from companies like Dell and Gateway.
The Intel Core Duo CPU is not as fast as a 900 series Pentium D processor, so a Intel MacBook Pro, MacMini or iMac isn't going to blow the doors off a high end desktop machine. When the new line of PowerMacs are released late Summer or in the Fall, they'll be running Intel CPUs as high end as any you can get from Dell, HP, etc. I figure Apple may actually go with XeonDP and XeonMP CPUs for the new PowerMac towers. You can get more cores and more L2 cache in that CPU line than with the PentiumD.
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