VMware 1.1.1. Windows XP SP2 Windows XP using Bootcamp. 2) I installed VMware 1.1.1. 3) I pointed VMware at the Bootcamp Windows XP partition (FAT32) It recognized and booted Widows into the default 'Single Window' view. Highlight your Windows XP Mode virtual machine on the main VirtualBox window. Double-click it and wait for Windows XP to burst into life: Looks like you made it! There is a strong possibility that your mouse will not immediately work with the Windows XP Mode virtual machine.
Freedom of choice never hurt computer users. I for one welcome the great alternatives to VPC I now have on my shiny new Intel Powerbook. At last I can get rid of Virtual PC! Personally I like Parallel's approach since I don't need a Wintendo but rather want to run a number of Win-only apps I am forced to use for various jobs.
Ah, and did I mention Office for Windows where certain macros REALLY work? Sadly, Office 2004 for OS X is still not 100% compatible to the Windows version (or vice versa???) so that I encounter problems all the time, especially with macros involving file paths.
Being able to run Win Office means one less PITA in that department. As for running Windows only: Let them have it! Before too long they'll (re-)discover the advantages of the Mac OS. And if they don't, at least Apple sold them a machine. Much better than people running hacked versions of OS X on their DIY-homebrew, Dull or Gateway PC.
New macs, unless I am misinformed, are just Intel computers with slick packaging and an EFI instead of a BIOS.which means that most (maybe not airport) of the hardware in your computer is standard Intel Centrino stuff.Hell, even the Core Duo chips are simply dual-core Pentium-Ms;anyway, any 3rd party hardware is obviously also featured in PCs, meaning that finding Windows drivers for them won't be a problem. Your problem, though, is not knowing what you have in the first place. What you need to do: Get a hardware identification utility like Driver Wizard (easily found on google) and run it - it'll tell you all the stuff you've got and the drivers you'll need for them; it'll even make a report which can be sent to it's website where they'll give you urls to the required drivers. Also, search online for a 'dissection' of a Macbook where the reviewers would have mentioned all the hardware. I bought Macs for the main reason that I don't like giving up 30% of my CPU to mandatory virus protection software and having to drop YET MORE cash on monthly subscriptions to keep it updated. Yes, Microsoft still fundamentally owns the retail computing market's OS, however I find the user experience much better on the Mac.
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I have a MacBook Pro because I want to boot Windows for ONE piece of software that I can't get for the Mac. Well, and because it's a very cool and sexy machine, but that's beside the point But to buy $2k(+) of Mac hardware.JUST. to run Windows seems not only silly and a bit of a slap in the nuts (or geek bragging rights), but it's a collosal waste of money, considering there are.LOTS. of sub-$1k notebook computers that are nearly as fast ( and have bigger screens and work just fine and come with nice gadgets and software.
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ReanimationLP, Did you have any version of Vista installed before or still have a version installed? I've got the exact same files right here in my boot efi folder and have never installed XP or MCE on the system. I've only got 2003 Server and Vista installed and those files didn't come from my 2003 install. Reason I'm also asking is because your files are the exact same size as my Vista boot efi files, which they wouldn't be since Vista is newer and constantly changing, and windowscodeintegrity.luacdf is not a part of XP/MCE, rather its from Vista. I also noticed your $RECYCLE.BIN in the main dir and the boot.bak.
$RECYCLE.BIN is also a feature from Vista and boot.bak implies you've had more than 1 OS installed since it's made a backup of the boot.ini.There is one very easy way for you to check. Take for example the bootmgr.efi, RIGHT-click on it, go to properties, then go to the Version tab, if the version is some form of 6.0.5xxx.x, then its from Vista. My bootmgr.efi, which is also 374 KB, has this file version number: 6.0.5270.9, which is from the latest December CTP release of Vista. Also, though I'm not 100% sure on this part since its been a while since I haven't had a system with Vista installed on it, but the boot folder in general is not even a part of XP/MCE/2003 booting.
All the files that I have in the general boot folder are all related to Vista booting. Yea that's what I thought Laser47. I'm 99.999% sure that his boot efi and his boot folder in general are from Vista since I've been testing Vista for a long time and the various things in his screenshot seem to prove that at one point or even at the moment he has a version of Vista installed. I'm not saying that MCE or XP won't work on an Intel Mac. EFI may in fact support legacy BIOS based OS booting, that we'll have to wait and see. However, MCE is just XP SP2 with the MCE app added and nothing else has been changed between the two in regards to boot etc.
So we shouldn't expect MCE to have something that XP SP2 doesn't.