Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler I'm heading to 'macbook' Boot Camp!

That's it. I just ordered my shiny new macbook pro laptop (the 2.0Ghz model- I'll add another gig of ram later for 1/3 the apple cost).
I should have it the 12th. YAY. Now I just need to slipstream sp2 onto an xp install disc. Hmm, I wonder how MS is going to handle people loading xp on apple hardware and the whole 'verifying' your install thing.
Man this is going to be great! Now I just need to figure out what to do with my ibook since I don't really need TWO mac laptops.... Such wonderful 'problems' to have, no?

-james (not waiting patiently) r

PS Peter, thanks for the mouse/delete heads up. You are right, those are some pretty important issues.

You can remedy the right-click issue by installing this.
For the delete, you can remap a key using the 'remapkey' tool in the w2k3 resource kit (it installs fine onto XP).

For slipstreaming, I highly recommend nLite. Free, easy, and very slick. Integrate service packs and hotfixes, plus tweak settings. You can make your XP install unattended, too.

Nice! Thanks for the heads up. I'll need them by next Tuesday.

Bwahahah. I have my new toy. AND because I was called to Jury Duty and duly dismissed I am now home setting it up and playing around with it. Thank god for highspeed internet access for zippy downloading.

-james

i still perfer OS X ..

No virus, no spyware, no crashing…


Granted I have a pc desktop, but that has been turned in to the file server, and everything accessed remotely by my PB.

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Funny, I don't have any of those issues with XP either.

yeah, but you dont go to as many porn sites, or other "bad" sites as i do either..............

funny. I'm sitting in jury duty now surfing on my Macbook. Fortunately the courthouse has wifi.

I backedup my Macbook last nite in prep for Bootcamp. I love my Macbook but it does suffer from the heat problem, since this was one of the first ones off the line. Also, i can't wait for more universal binaries. I've been able to crash programs on my Macbook. Mostly MS Office stuff but also Firefox AND even Safari. It does suck that you can't have Classic anymore though.

I'm definitely an OSX convert. Waiting for the 12" Macbooks so my wife can drop kick our PC desktop to the curb...

I don't have any of the whine problems, but the back (just under the LCD) does get really hot.

Firefox has been updated and it is universal now. It's a LOT faster than before. However, in-browser video is borked. It it's QT you are ok, but Real or Windows video won't display for me. Oh, and flash is messed up as well.

Ah, the joys of cutten edge hardware/software.

i hear ya. mine gets hot. my mighty mouse is broken so i'm sitting at the genius bar getting replaced. I asked about my abnormal heat problem and they said it's normal. It's a portable, not a laptop...sheesh.

I agree w/ the video. I like break.com but there's no real easy way.

I started using Firefox today. I prefer it. I hate accidentally closing all the windows in Safari.