Well,

“Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. ” – or that’s how the proverb goes. Anyway, I said I would wait until there was a commercial application before I put Windows XP on my MacBook Pro. Well, I did, Apple released BootCamp-a product that enables you to dual-boot Windows and Mac OS X on the same machine. All I can say is wow, my MacBook Pro has turned into a powerhouse work computing device; and thanks to the 256MB video card; has turned into a portable gamepad like no other. The graphics card on board the MacBook Pro is an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 card with 256MB SDRAM. I installed a few highly-graphics-processor-intensive Windows games on there and they rocked!

So right now, I have a dual partition 100 GB on Mac OS X and 20 GB on Windows XP Pro SP2. I chose the option to have Windows XP installed on a FAT32 partition. This enables me to write to the Windows drive from Mac OS X, but not vice versa. This is OK; because most of my really good editing tools are on the Mac.

I guess it’s kind of anti-climactic to have Windows XP on my Mac, but its really cool from the perspective that I don’t have to lug around two laptops on my engagements at customer sites.

The link for BootCamp is http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp

:Vaughn

Tags: lug, ati mobility, customer, commercial application, application