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#1 2009-08-28 5:11 pm
- Apple1598
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BOOT CAMP QUESTIONS
What are the disadvantages to running windows on your Mac? For example, while windows is open, can it recognize a USB device in your Mac's port? Also, can it use your Mac's built-in wireless card?
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#2 2009-08-28 8:09 pm
Re: BOOT CAMP QUESTIONS
Boot Camp includes drivers for all the hardware that comes with your mac (well with my mac anyway). It operates just as if it were a PC running windows. The only disadvantage is you can't run both OSes at the same time.
It is possible to find better drivers than the ones that come with boot camp (e.g. graphics card).
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#3 2009-08-28 8:52 pm
- SomeOneOrOther
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Re: BOOT CAMP QUESTIONS
If you want to run Windows side-by-side with Mac, then Boot Camp is not it. The best know solutions for that are VMWare Fusion and Parallels. I switch to Windows on a whim with VMWare while not leaving my Mac environment, works very well.
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#4 2009-08-29 12:18 am
- sturner
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Re: BOOT CAMP QUESTIONS
The advantages of running Boot Camp is that you get the full speed of the hardware, and graphics hardware acceleration. Thusly, gaming is best done through a Boot Camp installation rather than virtulization.
This thread was moved because it belongs in this topic area.
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#5 2009-11-08 7:47 pm
- davidmar
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Re: BOOT CAMP QUESTIONS
is there a convenient way to transfer files from boot camp to mac? i have a windows only film scanner and now that i have scanned several slides, i need to get them into mac os to enhance them.
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#6 2009-11-08 8:00 pm
- Booksley
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Re: BOOT CAMP QUESTIONS
davidmar wrote:
is there a convenient way to transfer files from boot camp to mac? i have a windows only film scanner and now that i have scanned several slides, i need to get them into mac os to enhance them.
Mac OS X supports read-only NTFS.
What this means in plain English is that you can open files on your Boot Camp drive in OS X without any extra software or configuration.
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#7 2009-11-09 8:37 am
- sturner
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Re: BOOT CAMP QUESTIONS
I use MacDrive to enable the Boot Camp installation access to my Mac drives. It works very well. Mediafour was making MacDrive back before any virtulization or emulation was possible for Macs. And they kept on. It works very well.
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