Apple Boot Camp and Window Blinds

By scout121 Posted May 4, 2008 11:04:09

I am seriously considering buying my first mac, one of those sleek looking macbook pros, and running windows vista on it using boot camp. I'm using window blinds on my xp pc now and was wondering if I might run into trouble trying to use window blinds on a osx boot camped vista computer.

And does anyone have experience with it?

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I believe Diafragma is doing this same thing...maybe he'll pop in here or you can PM him.

No experience yet, but my tech guy tells me that, while free, Boot Camp is an either/or launcher - can't work simultaneously in OSX & Windows. Parallels, on the other hand, launches both OS's - you can switch back and forth between them on the fly & it costs very little. I've been considering going to a mac, too, when my current notebook gets too anemic or breaks.

My wife tried this on her IMac with little difficulty. However anmiated start menus had some issues and had to be reapplied. I would call it well working though. I will let the developers know about this just incase it was her system to blame in this matter and not all BootCamp set ups.

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I'm running WB perfectly on Vista in Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro. Gonna do the same thing when my iMac arrives!

Instead of Parallels, I think I'm gonna try and run XP in VMWare Fusion. Just gotta hear from a colleague of mine how it compares against Parallels before I make the final decision.

I would love to know how that works out for you Pixel.

If you have any troubles at all please let me know. We have a tester IMac here and I would to experiment with it.

Will do. The iMac should be here very soon now. (Cross my fingers for friday, just before the weekend.)

Gonna talk to my colleague tomorrow about his experiences so far. He had his MacBook Pro with him at work when he installed it and we had a look at it there. It runs XP fine and the app itself seems to have some good features, but I'm gonna try for myself as well. And with ObjectDesktop installed of course.

i have heard that vmware is better for that. just what i have heard anyways. getting my mac by the 19th and i will not be doing that. i have a vista machine as well. i just like to keep them as separate entities.

We tried VMWare but in the end went to BootCamp. When it comes to Mac questions it is good to be able to talk to Apple themselves. For the record VMWare worked fine but BootCamp was a little easier.

Well, VMWare Fusion is what Parallels is - a virtual machine. They can both boot your BootCamp partition though, so if you just quickly need to do some stuff in Windows, you can do it from Mac OSX. Of course you'll get better performance using BootCamp, as it boots directly on the existing hardware and utilizes everything available natively, where the virtual machine perhaps is a little more crippled. I just heard from different sources that VMWAre should perform better than Parallels.

My colleague haven't installed any games through VMWare, but I think I'm gonna try that, and also see how it performs when I have multiple apps open at the same time, like Photoshop, Illustrator, iTunes, SkinStudio which I use most frequently. Gonna be interesting to see. My colleague is thrilled about VMWare, even though he's not using it for any professional work. As he says: "I'm really only gonna use it for the occasional website that doesn't render properly in Safari or Firefox on OSX." Add to that, that when he wants to play a game, he'll boot into Windows using BootCamp.

I didn't realize all that. Looks like I have another thing to play with over the weekend (the mac belongs to the wife offically but, meh, catch me!)

Got the iMac and finally got around to install Vista on it last night, so in a near future I'll see how it performs with VMWare Fusion from OSX.

This 24", 3.06 ghz, 4 GB ram baby is a badass. Index score is at 5.6, that's pretty damn good, and the monitor is sooooo slick and crisp. I love it.

I would like to know however, why it is that when I have my Intous 3 USB put in my keyboard it works fine in OSX, but in Vista it says it's low on power so I can't use it in the keyboard - I have to put it in one of the USB plugs in the back. Any thoughts to this difference between the two OS's?