Macintosh BootCamp

Gravitron · Postby **Gravitron** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:46 pm

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

Stewsburntmonkey · Postby **Stewsburntmonkey** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:51 pm

Yeah, that's making pretty big waves in most tech forums this morning. That pretty much means my next laptop is going to be a Mac (Yay!).

Rkiver · Postby **Rkiver** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:44 am

A mac laptop running windows XP, hell a Mac anything running XP? Mac just lost their main attraction.

Linux ahoy!

Mas Tnega · Postby **Mas Tnega** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:50 pm

They also lost their main down point. Games on a Mac are possible!

xander · Postby **xander** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:42 pm

Did I read that correctly? It repartitions the hard drive without wiping it? Nifty...

...

Oh, and you can use it to install WinXP? Meh... Why would I bother?

xander

Stewsburntmonkey · Postby **Stewsburntmonkey** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:45 pm

It also allows you to dual boot with Linux. . .

Mr. Roboto · Postby **Mr. Roboto** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:55 pm

You know what would really be neat to do on a Mac? Run OS X, XP, and Linux on the same system at the same time! :twisted:

Gravitron · Postby **Gravitron** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:04 am

Play games on WinXP (maybe some coding if you prefer MSVS), do art on OS X and the real computer stuff off of *nix.

shinygerbil · Postby **shinygerbil** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:06 pm

xander: it's possible to shrink/enlarge partitions without wiping. It's complicated, and some situations don't allow it, but it's possible nonetheless. So you'd have to shrink the main Mac partition (making sure all is defragged and in the right place) and then it's easy to create a new partiton. This would probably be one hell of a problem on a Windows filesystem...

Oh, and I'd code on Linux

gcc and g++ is all you need

xander · Postby **xander** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:49 pm

shinygerbil wrote:xander: it's possible to shrink/enlarge partitions without wiping. It's complicated, and some situations don't allow it, but it's possible nonetheless. So you'd have to shrink the main Mac partition (making sure all is defragged and in the right place) and then it's easy to create a new partiton. This would probably be one hell of a problem on a Windows filesystem...

Oh, and I'd code on Linux ;) gcc and g++ is all you need

Yeah, the entire comment was an exercise in sarcastic humour that, appearantly, does not really come across very well in writing. From the point of view of a standard Mac fanboi, repartitioning is unneccessary, for the most part, but does require wiping the drive (general lack of knowledge, because Macs "just work"). Then, the continued Mac fanboi response is "why would you bother running WinXP?" For myself, when I get around to getting a new lappy, I am looking forward to tri-booting Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows. I will finally be able to run ArcGIS from home, and not have to use university or federal computers to get the job done.

Oh, well... this isn't the first time my humour has fallen flat on its face...

xander

Babylon5 · Postby **Babylon5** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:49 am

This makes me want *nix even more.

prophile · Postby **prophile** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:21 pm

*prepares to quadruple boot his system*

OSX, Linux, XP, WTFBSD

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