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cheers for reply, where do i find that?

i bought this earlier its a macbook pro, but really disliking the OS and could do with my vista back on, plus its for a lot of paper work so guessing im better off with windows?
 
because we got it cheap :)

can someone just please tell me how to get vista on, thanks very much :)
 
You can wipe the entire thing of OS X if you want. Vista won't touch an HFS+ partition though so you have to delete everything using Disk Utility on the restore disk (or format as say FAT32 - making sure to change the boot type to MBR!). Then it's just like any other PC :)
 
ive been playing with this all night and only just figured out how to get it to connect to a network, just downloaded boot camp but it wont install i double click it and the picture icon just expands then nothing at all happens

been doing loads of reading to but its a real big shame i haven't got the slightest clue what these computer words are :(

i was just hoping to stick in my vista disk and let it install :( bad times

also why does it knock my other laptop and my gaming rig offline when i connect this up to wireless network?

thanks
 
Rybo89 said:
ive been playing with this all night and only just figured out how to get it to connect to a network, just downloaded boot camp but it wont install i double click it and the picture icon just expands then nothing at all happens

been doing loads of reading to but its a real big shame i haven't got the slightest clue what these computer words are :(

i was just hoping to stick in my vista disk and let it install :( bad times

also why does it knock my other laptop and my gaming rig offline when i connect this up to wireless network?

thanks
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Whats the MBP spec? I'll swap it you for my HP DV5 Laptop, 2.26ghz Core 2 Duo, 4Gb Ram, Blu-ray drive, 250Gb HDD....Windows Vista :p
 
Rybo89 said:
i bought this earlier its a macbook pro, but really disliking the OS and could do with my vista back on, plus its for a lot of paper work so guessing im better off with windows?
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Cheap or not why in the name of the Goddess would you buy a MacBook Pro and then want to just use Vista on it? At least use Windows 7 :p

You need to give OS X more of a chance than that especially if you have been a PC user for a long time.

apple.com/switch

http://www.tuaw.com/category/mac-101/

Rybo89 said:
ive been playing with this all night and only just figured out how to get it to connect to a network, just downloaded boot camp but it wont install i double click it and the picture icon just expands then nothing at all happens

been doing loads of reading to but its a real big shame i haven't got the slightest clue what these computer words are :(

i was just hoping to stick in my vista disk and let it install :( bad times

also why does it knock my other laptop and my gaming rig offline when i connect this up to wireless network?

thanks
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That's the disk image mounting (like a DVD) - Go to Finder (like Windows Explorer) and click on the boot camp disk image and then run the boot camp setup from there.

As for your Wireless network I don't have much of an clue but I doubt it has anything to do with the MacBook Pro.

Oh and bad times are MacBook Pro + Vista but I hope you get it sorted.
 
Model Name: MacBook Pro 17"
Model Identifier: MacBookPro2,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.33 GHz
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB

very quick in everything, but i have more chance reading a russian newspaper and understanding it more then i do this mac book

cant even figure out how to install things im that useless with it haha

edit: cheers LordSplodge looks like im gunna have to get use to it ay haha
 
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Rybo89 said:
very quick in everything, but i have more chance reading a russian newspaper and understanding it more then i do this mac book
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Do you have problems in Vista (using it that is)?

Don't take this the wrong way but my wife uses OS X and she doesn't know one end of a computer from the other! :D :p

Seriously go on the Internet an look at so beginners guides to OS X. Give it a try before you right it off...
 
no i love vista ultimate :) always used windows since day 1, reason why i feel so lost on mac haha

hardware i know a lot about.....software im useless :p

ive put it away for time being, will have to have another look at it tomorrow after work, cheers for all info dude :)
 
Surely when you get something new half the fun is learning about it?

Can't you just spend an evening leaning about OSX? I've used Windows since 3.11, when i first got my Macbook, OSX did feel a little alien but a couple of hours later i got used to it as will you.

If you really put your mind to it you could probably figure out OSX quicker than doing a reasonable Vista install.

Owning a Mac is about as much as OSX as it is about the Mac itself.
 
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haha i got it back out through frustration :p

sorta finding things out, but theres still stuff on it from the previous owner, is there any way i can format the hard drive back to factory settings? i didn't get a disk with it... so can i download anything from anywhere?

cheers
 
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pumaz said:
Can't you just spend an evening leaning about OSX? I've used Windows since 3.11,


Owning a Mac is about as much as OSX as it is about the Mac itself.
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I agree. Apple computers and OS X go hand in hand.

I've used Windows since 3.0 and Apple's OS since System 6 on a Macintosh Classic. Going from OS 9 to OS X was a shock but OS X work better for me than any Windows OS and I'm not saying that as a blind Fanboi as I am writing this from Safari running on Windows 7 lol.

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If you can work windows and are capible of making a cup of tea you sure as hell can use OSX lol.
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As I have already said my wife doesn't do computer and she uses OS X like it was second nature yet cannot get on with Windows (she has to use XP at work!)
 
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