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post #1 of 15
7/30/08 at 1:41am
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im about to buy a Macbook the black one 2.4ghz wid 250 HD space and i was wondering if running bootcamp with a windows Vista 64 makes the computer any slower? the reason why is because im not really informed with this but wouldnt having two OS make ur computer slower? also would it take alot of space?
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post #2 of 15
7/30/08 at 4:14am
It would run just like Vista64 on any other PC with identical specs.

Which considering its Vista, is still pretty slow

Yes you would need both OSes on the HD, so you would lose some space, but when running BootCamp you are only running of the OSes at a time.

Seablade
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post #3 of 15
7/30/08 at 4:41am
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would it take alot of space off? can anybody tell me how much it would take if i had a 2GB?
is this BootCamp a easy setup process to install everything???
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post #4 of 15
7/30/08 at 12:17pm
You would be hard pressed to find a computer that only had a 2GB hard drive these days. And in 2 Gigs I would doubt you would be able to install EITHER of those systems(At least not easily). Maybe you are thinking of memory and not hard drive space?

Boot Camp is an easy process to go through.

Seablade
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post #5 of 15
7/30/08 at 4:20pm
Windows XP requires just under a gig, normally, IIRC.

What exactly are you going to use in Windows? Tally the applications you're going to use and the space they take up and add about 3 or 4 gigs on top of that for swap space and files.
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post #6 of 15
7/30/08 at 4:54pm
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i meant 250GB HD sorry guys.
im not really sure, but for some reason i just want to have both OS in the laptop. no programs i really specifically want on the windows but im sure there are some.
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post #7 of 15
7/30/08 at 5:10pm
I was running a Windows XP install for several months for video game development, at that time 20Gigs for the OS, the game, a variety of FLAC music files, development environment, and a small variety of other software was fine for me. Obviously this would probably want to be modified for Vista, however I don't see needing over 25 Gigs if you aren't even sure how often you would use it.

Seablade
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post #8 of 15
7/30/08 at 8:41pm


20 gigs is most likely more than enough if you're not going to do anything specific.
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post #9 of 15
7/31/08 at 12:27am
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so my 250GB macbook that ill be getting would be no problem at all correct? does it make your computer run slower then usual? or would it be running just like a normal one? btw thanks for all this help kakaze your awesome : )
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post #10 of 15
7/31/08 at 12:54am
Unless you're going to store lots of video or other large files on your computer, 250 gigs is most likely going to be more than enough.

And I'm assuming you're asking if Bootcamp makes the computer slower? No, it doesn't. The Bootcamp Assistant itself isn't actually anything other than a graphical frontend for a destructionless—I'm almost certain there's another, better word for this but I can't think of it—partitioning utility and a package of Windows drivers for burning to a CD. You don't even need it to install Windows on the computer but it makes it easier.

Once Windows is installed it is no different from any other computer in the world.

And don't thank just me, Seablade helped too.
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post #11 of 15
7/31/08 at 1:13am
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oh im really sorry. of course seagate helped. thanks seagate ur great help.... what do you mean by,, i dont need to install windows on the computer. do u mean it like as in an opinion or are u saying i can have windows without installing it? im pretty sure ur just giving an opinion but im kind of confused!
also is it true the new MacBooks will be coming up real soon? if so , ive read alot of articles but couldnt really find one stating that whent he new ones comes out, the current ones will price drop. do you known anything about this?
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post #12 of 15
7/31/08 at 12:22pm
No, what I said was you don't need the BootCamp Assistant to install Windows, but using it makes the process much easier.

Apple is very tight lipped about security. The only metric we have for determining when new models are going to be released is past release dates. According to past release dates there should be an update within the next couple months but it's not a guarantee. http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
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post #13 of 15
7/31/08 at 2:29pm
I think I have been demoted to a hard drive

At any rate, I will add one thing on to what Kakaze has said. Right now there are enough rumors swirling and a few things to back them up, that I think that if yu can wait until the next product launch by Apple it might not be a bad idea. The main thing that has me saying this is that apple has informed its stores to go ahead and order at least 4 weeks worth of stock according to sites like ArsTechnica, and there is at least one product transition incoming by the end of the year we are pretty certain is going to happen, we just aren't certain on what it is. Most of their lineup short of the iPhone are canidates for a refresh though, so it might be worth waiting til early to late September if you can and choose to.

Not to say that the current lineup is bad, I quite enjoy my older MBP, and my Powerbook before that.

Seablade

PS ^ For the record it is Seablade and not Seagate Seagate is a hard drive. Seablade is me(And one really crappy X-Box game that stole my handle)
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post #14 of 15
7/31/08 at 11:55pm
You just have such a magnetic personality, Seablade.
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post #15 of 15
8/11/08 at 1:45pm
dont make your new mac sick by installing vista
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