Boot Camp

[Marky]

Hey all,

Just a quick question on boot camp.

With boot camp, are you able to choose to boot into either OSX or XP? Or is it permanent (Until you reinstall leopard )

Also, if it's temporary, how do you select which OS (I.e. do you have to go into OSX and choose XP or can you choose it so it automatically turns on to XP?)

Also, what other OS's run with boot camp?
Oh and while im here... Does the Leopard CD/DVD come with the macbooks, or is there at least a CD/DVD to reinstall (Or reset) the system?

Thanks,
Marky

 

[BillytheImpaler]

No, you get to pick which to boot. A menu comes up when you reboot or if you're in OS X you can select it and reboot into it. You can install any OSes you want but the point of Boot Camp is providing Windows drivers for your hardware. Other OSes like Linux typically come with most of the important drivers already in the kernel.

It will come with disks for the OS and all preinstalled software.

 

[TheKnat]

You can select what drive you want to boot from normally and then hold down the option key (alt key) on startup to select a different drive

 

[Marky]

So what does this "Parallel" thing do? I've heard it does the same as boot camp? Why would I pay £50 when it does the same as boot camp? Or is it different somehow?

 

[WotDa]

So what does this "Parallel" thing do? I've heard it does the same as boot camp? Why would I pay £50 when it does the same as boot camp? Or is it different somehow?

It's virtualization software, both at once rather than just Winblows on it's own.

VMWare Fusion is the same as Parallels too, have a look over their features if that's what you want.

 

[feriso]

Parrallels is a virtual machine that runs the OS from inside OSX

 

[Marky]

Whats the advantage of that =\

 

[WotDa]

Whats the advantage of that =\

The ability to say, run a Mac app, 'along side' a Windows app.

 

[wij]

So what does this "Parallel" thing do? I've heard it does the same as boot camp? Why would I pay £50 when it does the same as boot camp? Or is it different somehow?

Paralelles / VM Ware Fusion are just emulating Windows or "virtualising" it under OS X.

That is essentially the core difference, running in a virtual environment is handy if you just want to switch between OS X and Windows etc. although it does lack the dedicated access to the hardware that running bootcamp offers, there is little/no 3D acceleration available and getting it to talk to external devices can be interesting at the best of times.

When you run windows under bootcamp it is essentially the same as if it was a windows machine, it is running the operating system natively on hardware, rather than as a software emulated environment.

 

[Marky]

Ah I see Thanks very much ^_^