Mac / Vista / Windows 7

[OrangeHopper]

I'm likely to be out the door here in the next couple of months and I was thinking taking advantage of my complimentary MSDN subscription. I'm primarily after Visual Studio.

Fortunately or unfortunately - depending on your point of view - I only use Macs at home. I'm thinking of using bootcamp on my Mac Mini - rather than virtualisation - and need to decide which version of Windows to get hold of. I'm assuming 32bit Vista or Windows 7.

Now I know there are some bods on here that have done this sort of thing and I wondered what your advice would be about choice of OS.

[Not So Wise]

I'm likely to be out the door here in the next couple of months and I was thinking taking advantage of my complimentary MSDN subscription. I'm primarily after Visual Studio.

Fortunately or unfortunately - depending on your point of view - I only use Macs at home. I'm thinking of using bootcamp on my Mac Mini - rather than virtualisation - and need to decide which version of Windows to get hold of. I'm assuming 32bit Vista or Windows 7.

Now I know there are some bods on here that have done this sort of thing and I wondered what your advice would be about choice of OS.

No idea how Win 7 would behave being hosted on a Mac, but general consensus these days is go XP or straight to W7.

Vista is basically going to be WinME all over again

[Moscow Mule]

I have my boot camp partition running XP pro. I rarely use it these days as I've stopped playing WoW

I've used W7 in parallels and I can also run my boot camp partion through parallels.

I expect (but don't know) that W7 works very well on boot camp as there are vista drivers for BC. You might have some 32/64 bit issues but just google it as some geek is bound to have done it before...

[d000hg]

I seem to remember it's harder getting XP running on a Mac but I can't remember why - I think it's maybe due to the type of BIOS used on Macs. On the other hand I installed Vista Ultimate on my current-gen MacBook with no problems whatsoever, except that the trackpad driver is lame (running under Parallels etc you avoid this as the drivers are still handled by MacOs) - easy remedied by plugging in a £5 mouse which is probably better for coding anyway.

I'd expect W7 would be very smooth to install, though of course the RC version isn't guaranteed!

[scooterscot]

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I'd expect W7 would be very smooth to install, though of course the RC version isn't guaranteed!

I've got the RC version running through parallels on an SD express card on the Mac pro, once it's up and running it's incredibly responsive.

[OrangeHopper]

Thanks Gents.

I will probably go for Windows 7 first and see how I get on.

[expat]

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Vista is basically going to be WinME all over again

(shuuder) nothing could be as bad as WinME

[Addanc]

Still haven't got Vista SP2 to install yet, just get some generic error out of the tulipe. Whatever windows crap comes with the PC just install a Linux distro, you know it makes sense!

[d000hg]

Still haven't got Vista SP2 to install yet, just get some generic error out of the tulipe. Whatever windows crap comes with the PC just install a Linux distro, you know it makes sense!

You're using Linux because you're too dumb to install Windows... what's wrong with this picture?

[Cliphead]

Installed Win 7 RTM this morning on a spare PC. I had two webcams plugged in that I forgot to remove before installing, a Logitech and a Microsoft Lifecam. After the install completed Windows update kicked in, saw the Logitech cam, installed the drivers and downloaded the utility software without a hitch. The Microsoft Lifecam? Unrecognised device