OSX Tips and Tricks

Ok, well MacBooks are great btw, thought i'd get that out of the way. Well my ultimate tip is to put windows onto it using Bootcamp availiable from the Apple website, it's great for gaming ect because i'm running HL:2 with all of the graphic settings in full and i still get a frame rate of 30fps, it's bloody amazing. So yeh, have a go and enjoy your MacBook!
 
Jet said:
Where did you buy it?

If it was direct from Apple just quote the passage of the terms and conditions i posted and ask where it says they must be unused. Best have a look at the full terms just to make sure, you don't want to look like a fool lol.
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Hi
I bought it from Here http://www.krcs.co.uk/ac_leeds.html
I didn't bother taking it back. I just didn't want all the hassle of arguing the toss. Thanks for the Tip tho.

The Macbook is great & Now I have boot camp on with XP its all good. Except I cannot get on the Internet through Wireless with XP & The Cursor behaves rather erratic Or just freezes up when Using XP.

Anyone else have those problems?

Cheers
 
I am/was in the same boat, but could not be bothered going through the hassle, I am not concerned about a 0.001s speed increase in output from Stata or whatever :-P

Afterall, I bought it to do Internet, Stata and SWP on the move, and it does it perfectly

@home, I use parallels, works perfectly. I find I end up using the Mac end of things for E-mail and Internet, and only use Windows for Stata and SWP.
 
As soon as my 2GB arrives i'll be sticking with parallels and reclaiming my disk space from BootCamp. Just love flipping straight from one OS to t'other...it just struggles on 512MB though.
 
I was :eek: at how amazingly simple and effective parallels was. I installed with the trial and it was up and running in about 30mins quicker than installing windows. And it runs fast, a bit of slowdown because I have only got 512mb ram but still very usable. I can believe how well it works.

Just 1 question: whats the best method for transfering files from osx to the windows vm?
 
If you're using parallels to lun windows or Linux install VirtueDesktops to let you simply swap between OS's in full screen mode with a hotkey or mouse movement...plus it looks funky. Just create 2 desktops...one for OSX and all it's apps and one for full screen Parallels running windows or Linux.

Check the (poor quality) video
 
JimmyEatWorms said:
If you're using parallels to lun windows or Linux install VirtueDesktops to let you simply swap between OS's in full screen mode with a hotkey or mouse movement...plus it looks funky. Just create 2 desktops...one for OSX and all it's apps and one for full screen Parallels running windows or Linux.

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Any more info on this? So you have to have Parallels running windows in the back ground or does it pause when your using the other OS?

Cheers!

EDIT: Just an update, I've downloaded and tried that software, seems pretty good! Ideal if your busy using both OS's :)

Not Very Brilliant instructions though!
 
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Sorry...didn't explain that very well :D

Parallels is still running live in the background. VirtueDesktops just provides a nice method of switching between the operating systems.
 
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Parallel noob question:

My understanding of Parallels is a program which launches XP inside of OS X, but is only run when you decide??

Is this right, or does it run in the background all the time? is that an option?
 
EVH said:
Parallel noob question:

My understanding of Parallels is a program which launches XP inside of OS X, but is only run when you decide??

Is this right, or does it run in the background all the time? is that an option?
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You can tell it to run on startup, but it is primarily run on demand. Im still a bit of a noob but it seems very good. Dont know if I can justify a purchase just yet though.
 
EVH said:
PMy understanding of Parallels is a program which launches XP inside of OS X, but is only run when you decide??
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It is only launched when you decide (although as MaxPower stated, you can set it to launch on start-up), but once it is started it will keep running until you stop it. It does not stop when you have the application open but are not using it (as in, if you are using it in conjunction with VirtueDesktops).

Just thought I'd clarify that :)

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Big-Mac-Please said:
Save on the ram used :)
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It would save on the RAM used, but where does the data stored in the RAM go when the application is paused? The only viable option is to dump it to the hard drive, which would presumably take quite a bit of time (thus destroying the quick, smooth transition between operating systems provided by VirtueDesktops) and in the long-term would put a lot of stress on the hard drive itself.

Just get lots of RAM (2GB for a laptop) and each operating system should be able to survive fine on 1GB each, or ~600MB if you are running three instances. Close Parallels down when you need to do something resource-intensive on OS X and the jobs a good 'un.

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I was only saying about pausing it :) I have no idea of what would be required, i guess its not a practical idea.

Does anyone know if the macbooks with 1gb have a spare slot?
 
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