Apple makes Mac run Windows XP

Tommy B said:
Excellent.

I'm buying a Mac, and I was worried about losing some Windows apps. They are superior for image/video/music editing.
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Apple are just now starting to release Universal binaries for their Pro software but Adobe, from what I've read, won't have OSX intel-native apps until next year.

The likes of Photoshop in Rosetta is meant to be quite sluggish.

We're upgrading Macs at work but sticking to PowerPC G5's because we need Creative Suite running natively.
 
All done :D

I'm writing this from the MacBook Pro running XP.

There's a few unknowns in Device Manager (for the things like the iSight camera), but everything important works.

I'm off to play...
 
Le Samourai said:
The likes of Photoshop in Rosetta is meant to be quite sluggish.
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Very true. Slow loading, and once you start using more than a couple of layers, in large resolutions then yes it's very slow!
 
PinkPig said:
If you just want to run windows, why on earth would you buy a mac? If it's just a windows PC you're looking for, you get much better value going elsewhere.
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im gonna get so flamed for saying this:

i like the way their laptops look/design of them :)
 
if you think the way they look makes it worthwhile to pay inflated prices then thats your choice

So if OSX is that good, and we can run windows on a mac, what about osx on a pc now?
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we can already do that - google osx86 project

The only reason Apple have done this is that people got it to work anyway around a month ago, and trying to support their image of giving people what they want they arranged this.

Those of you saying that windows works much better on a pc anyway - Intel Macs run pc hardware, and apple have updated the firmware so you will have all necessary windows drivers working natively.
 
gobbo said:
Very true. Slow loading, and once you start using more than a couple of layers, in large resolutions then yes it's very slow!
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That will depend on the hardware youre running. I have one of the 20" iMacs with 2GB RAM and the 256 GFX card and Ive not had any cause for complaint yet.

10.4.6 has fixed all the issues I initially had with the machine and now I cant fault it.

Gaming is the only reason I can see that people will want to put XP on their Mac and thats people who already have one. Ive not come across anything other than gaming that I cant do on my Macs. It remains to be seen whether Microsoft will offer any support for Windows running on a Mac at all but I wouldnt install it until 10.5.2 anyway, when they have had a chance to work out any issues.
 
i have a ibook I bought three years ago...the battery still lasts up to 4 hours of use

my girlfriend bought a dell....just a touch over a year old it now has ZERO battery life

I have not cared for my battery in any way at all. Appart from being a bit grubby it still looks modern and profesional. i'm due for a new lappy and I wanted a mac because of the build qualty and finish but really needed xp to run some industry specific applications and now I can have both :D

plus osx is pwerty!
 
Mat said:
That will depend on the hardware youre running. I have one of the 20" iMacs with 2GB RAM and the 256 GFX card and Ive not had any cause for complaint yet.
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Are you running Photoshop (PowerPC code) in Rosetta though on your Intel iMac?

A reviewer on another website wasn't favourable - OSX Intel code was very nippy but apps running in Rosetta weren't.

Adobe say they won't have a Universal binary until the next major release of Creative Suite which could be April next year.
 
Le Samourai said:
Are you running Photoshop (PowerPC code) in Rosetta though on your Intel iMac?...

Adobe say they won't have a Universal binary until the next major release of Creative Suite which could be April next year.
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Answered that one yourself there :D

But to clarify, yes, I am.
 
Well I gave in and ordered a MacBook Pro this morning for delivery tomorrow. Just gotta sell everything I own now :D
 
Jimathy said:
Well I gave in and ordered a MacBook Pro this morning for delivery tomorrow. Just gotta sell everything I own now :D
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Congrats!

Did you get it from online Apple store? Cause atm they are on a 3 day wait :confused:
 
gobbo said:
Congrats!

Did you get it from online Apple store? Cause atm they are on a 3 day wait :confused:
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Nah ordered from some dodgy geeza in south london that i found via that auction place, so either saved myself a lot of money or have been royally ripped off :p

the track n trace says its on its way though so.........
 
Must admit, I'm pretty tempted.

Personally, I would wait for the next OSX version (Leopard???) but the idea of this being 'supported' by Apple now is cool.

I only recently purchased Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements 4 for Win, so I don't really want to get rid of those already (plus the delays with the Universal versions for Mac as well), so having a Mac running Windows just for that would be cool.
I don't do much Word and Excel these days, so I could live without that for now. Probably want to get rid of Outlook as well (since I'm still on Outlook 2000).

I don't really play games either, so I'd only want to run Win really for the recently purchased Abobe stuff.

Mind you, will probably end up buying the kit in Japan, so I can get a Japanese keyboard for the wifey, with the additional keys to allow convenient switching between Japanese and English input.


What I'm interested in knowing is what the Power Consumption figures are the new Intel Macs, say compared with a 2 year old Pentium 4 based Compaq laptop. If it's less, I certainly want one!!
 
How well will games run on the Apple's through this software? I see they talk about driver support for the graphics card but is it like in virtual PC software where you get a standard graphics driver and that's it?

If it does allow real 3d acceleration then I'll be very tempted to buy an Apple notebook for my next system.
 
afraser2k said:
How well will games run on the Apple's through this software? I see they talk about driver support for the graphics card but is it like in virtual PC software where you get a standard graphics driver and that's it?

If it does allow real 3d acceleration then I'll be very tempted to buy an Apple notebook for my next system.
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Pretty well, apparently
 
afraser2k said:
How well will games run on the Apple's through this software? I see they talk about driver support for the graphics card but is it like in virtual PC software where you get a standard graphics driver and that's it?

If it does allow real 3d acceleration then I'll be very tempted to buy an Apple notebook for my next system.
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If you want to run games through th Parallels Workstation software under Windows, don't bother. For normal day to day tasks it's fine, but for gaming, sadly it just dosen't feel fast enough.

How ever, if you use Boot Camp, partition your drive and install Windows that way, then from what i've read, it should give pretty impressive performance.

Stolen from different forum:
MacBook Pro Core Duo 2Ghz, 2Gb DDR2, 256Mb X1600

CS:Source Stress Test - 83fps (1440x900)

3d Mark 06 - 1535 (1280x768)
3d Mark 06 CPU - 1658
 
MacBook Pro tipped up at 11.10am this morning. So I know how I'm going to be spending my afternoon.

Bought the 2.16Ghz Version with a 7200rpm HDD for £1625 all in :eek: (was £2059 @ the Apple Store) :D :D Just waiting for the extra gig of memory to tip up from that well know direct memory seller and I'm away.

Happy Days!!
 
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