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post #1 of 9
3/1/08 at 10:21am
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sorry before if this was asked many times before.. just wanna confirm some stuffs..

I plan on buying the new mbp,
install vista with bootcamp, or probably without bootcamp if the situation turns out worse..

what I wanna know is, could Vista detect all drivers, like iSight, bluetooth, and all other Apple's internal hardware, also the external ones like Apple's wireless keyboard and wireless mighty mouse?

how about 32bit and 64bit, which one is supported and recommended?

it's my 1st time trying out a mac, so I'm still kinda lost..

thx in advance..
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post #2 of 9
3/1/08 at 12:13pm
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html

Short answer, drivers are provided by Apple and you need to burn the driver disk in OS X.

Only 32 Bit OSes are supported.

Seablade
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post #3 of 9
3/1/08 at 6:59pm
My recommendation is to get VMWare Fusion or Parallels instead of Bootcamp. I use VMWare and love it.
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post #4 of 9
3/1/08 at 8:10pm
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Originally Posted by seablade View Post
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html

Short answer, drivers are provided by Apple and you need to burn the driver disk in OS X.

Only 32 Bit OSes are supported.

Seablade
According to MacRumors Apple has started releasing 64 bit drivers... ??
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post #5 of 9
3/1/08 at 8:15pm
Don't know since I don't have access to Leopard to check, so it isentirely possible I am wrong, but going off the site listed above I would say 32 Bit is what is considered supported at least.

Seablade
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post #6 of 9
3/3/08 at 3:01am
Just a quick question about VMWare or Parallels - do I have to install XP/Vista first via bootcamp before I install VMWare/Parallels? Or do I need to get the software first and then install Vista/XP?

Thanks!
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post #7 of 9
3/3/08 at 3:16am
Either/Or.

I will tackle the VMWare side of things since I haven't upgraded our copy of Parallels as this kinda annoyed me about how they treat Linux.

VMWare can load your Boot Camp Partition as a Virtual Machine, but like any other Virtualization software, it can create its own VMs as files on your Mac HD. Obviously for the Boot Camp method, you need to make the boot camp partition, and also obviously for VMWare to create the VM as a file on your Mac HD, you need to install the software first.

That make sense? I am not always the best at explaining things, so just making sure.

Seablade
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post #8 of 9
3/6/08 at 10:36pm
Hmm - I think I understand what you're saying. So in other words, in order to get the most bang for your buck, it would be better to load the VMWare virtual machine off a separate partition, am I correct? This way, you could use VMWare when you need to access your Windows apps more quickly, and you could also boot into Windows natively if you wanted to do some gaming.

Is my line of thinking correct here?

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Either/Or.

I will tackle the VMWare side of things since I haven't upgraded our copy of Parallels as this kinda annoyed me about how they treat Linux.

VMWare can load your Boot Camp Partition as a Virtual Machine, but like any other Virtualization software, it can create its own VMs as files on your Mac HD. Obviously for the Boot Camp method, you need to make the boot camp partition, and also obviously for VMWare to create the VM as a file on your Mac HD, you need to install the software first.

That make sense? I am not always the best at explaining things, so just making sure.

Seablade
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post #9 of 9
3/7/08 at 2:12am
Yep that is one way of doing things. If memory serves though there are still a few quirks with booting a boot camp partition, but i haven't tried in quite some time to say for certain.

Seablade
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