Installed Vista Home premium in a MacBook computer...

[ofbarea]

My girlfriend just bought a new MacBook 2 with Mac OS X Tiger v10.4.6. It is a very nice 2 GHz core due computer with 1GB ram and 80 GB hard disk.

I have not really worked with a Mac since the days of the SE/30 running OS 8.1 and 128 megas RAM (nice hack ) but I was amazed with the quality of MAC OS X.

It is quick, clean, elegant and really simple to use. I found my way very quickly and in no time I had configured Firefox & google tool bar, DivX, adobe acrobat reader, skype and google earth.

I also installed office 2004 demo and I can say that it is very ease to use application. It still has the office fealing, but with a Mac taste.

Then I installed X11 and Open Office...

But then, I hit a wall... My girl friend asked me to install MS Outlook 2003. Given this I looked at codeweavers’s CrossOver Mac 6.0 but according to the compatibility list, outlook 2003, it is not fully supported.

I did not really want to deal with my girl friend’s continuous cry’s for problems with outlook so my only safe choice was to install Windows and office using boot camp.

I had in hand a license of Vista Home Premium that I did not use as the PC where it was to be installed now is happily running Fedora 6 (Linux).

So I went ahead and installed boot camp 1.2 beta in the Mac. I created a windows drivers cd and a 32 GB windows partition. Then I installed Vista in there.

After Vista was running I installed Apple drivers. The drivers CD created before had drivers for Bluetooth, integrated camera, touch pad, keyboard, wireless card and video card. After another reboot everything worked just fine.


At this point I downloaded latest Intel video and chipsets drivers and installed then.

Then I installed some standard software like Firefox, Java, etc..

Of course, Outlook worked just fine, and my problem is solved.

This machine is a very capable dual boot laptop able to run OS X and Windows, but I still think its OS X personality is better, friendlier and faster.

The advantage of having Vista running there is that now I may use TMPGEnc and other Windows apps in the event I need more power on the go...

CPU-Z Database (ID : 202403)

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=202403

[ebenton]

Yea! Let's hear it for Mac users! Check out this link:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant

[redwudz]

Some will say Vista is an idea stolen from Apple.

I still have my G4 Mac. I like the interface, but updates and software were getting too expensive. I just use it for graphics now

And please, keep it civil. Mac VS MS flames are not helpful.

Moderator redwudz

[Dv8ted2]

My girlfriend just bought a new MacBook 2 with Mac OS X Tiger v10.4.6. It is a very nice 2 GHz core due computer with 1GB ram and 80 GB hard disk.

I have not really worked with a Mac since the days of the SE/30 running OS 8.1 and 128 megas RAM (nice hack ) but I was amazed with the quality of MAC OS X.

It is quick, clean, elegant and really simple to use. I found my way very quickly and in no time I had configured Firefox & google tool bar, DivX, adobe acrobat reader, skype and google earth.

I also installed office 2004 demo and I can say that it is very ease to use application. It still has the office fealing, but with a Mac taste.

Then I installed X11 and Open Office...

But then, I hit a wall... My girl friend asked me to install MS Outlook 2003. Given this I looked at codeweavers’s CrossOver Mac 6.0 but according to the compatibility list, outlook 2003, it is not fully supported.

I did not really want to deal with my girl friend’s continuous cry’s for problems with outlook so my only safe choice was to install Windows and office using boot camp.

I had in hand a license of Vista Home Premium that I did not use as the PC where it was to be installed now is happily running Fedora 6 (Linux).

So I went ahead and installed boot camp 1.2 beta in the Mac. I created a windows drivers cd and a 32 GB windows partition. Then I installed Vista in there.

After Vista was running I installed Apple drivers. The drivers CD created before had drivers for Bluetooth, integrated camera, touch pad, keyboard, wireless card and video card. After another reboot everything worked just fine.


At this point I downloaded latest Intel video and chipsets drivers and installed then.

Then I installed some standard software like Firefox, Java, etc..

Of course, Outlook worked just fine, and my problem is solved.

This machine is a very capable dual boot laptop able to run OS X and Windows, but I still think its OS X personality is better, friendlier and faster.

The advantage of having Vista running there is that now I may use TMPGEnc and other Windows apps in the event I need more power on the go...

CPU-Z Database (ID : 202403)

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=202403

You realize that you are in violation of the license, don't you?

Mac users need to run Vista Business or Vista Ultimate in order to be in compliance with the Vista licensing.

[ofbarea]

Not really. I´m just running Vista in a PC that happens to be made by apple

I cannot run Vista Home inside a Virtual Machine from OS X (Like Parallels Desktop for Mac), Linux or another Windows OS (actually I can but this would really be a violation of the license).

This is not my case as I´m running Vista directly from the real thing (a PC with an Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T7200, in a mobo that has an Intel i945GM chipsets), not from an emulated virtual session.

[ebenton]

Some will say Vista is an idea stolen from Apple.

I still have my G4 Mac. I like the interface, but updates and software were getting too expensive. I just use it for graphics now

And please, keep it civil. Mac VS MS flames are not helpful.

Moderator redwudz

Hey, I didn't create that webpage. I just thought it was so over-the-top and funny.

[ofbarea]

So far the MacBook2 (or WinMac as some friends pointed) has been a great machine.

I was just missing the capability of using standard external monitors with it.

Then I found the solution in the form of the Apple Mini-DVI to VGA adapter. I got one in Amazon and now everything is just fine.

The only complain is that Aero transparencies gets disabled if I use external monitor and the internal display concurrently. Not a big deal though.