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And, how about graphics cards?  Can you play games well w/bootcamp?

you cant play games on the mini, but windows runs fine with boot camp.

just about a normal boot time, 1 min or 2

Last edited by NoExit (2006-04-22 4:24 pm)

mo' ron wrote:

NoExit wrote:

just about a normal boot time, 1 min or 2

That's kinda long, for either Windows or OS X.

well iv never timed it so i cant be 100% sure, but its less than 1 or 2 mins and i need sleep

NoExit wrote:

you cant play games on the mini, but windows runs fine with boot camp.

NO LIES ON THE INTERWEB!!!

you cant play games on a mini

Because computer games were just invented this year, no computer from before that will run them.


This whole "you have to have the latest hardware for games" cracks me up.  I was playing computer games in the mid 80's - when the mini would have been a supercomputer. 

If these alleged gamers would phrase it as  you have to have X hardware to run Y game then they'd have a point.  I'd still think they were posting on the wrong forum, but they'd have a point.

Since I just wrote Space Invaders and Pong, yes. At least I do.

XP under Boot Camp is VERY fast on my 2ghz MacBook Pro. Games I've tried so far rock, although I had to turn down the resolution and graphic detail a bit on Oblivion.

Blender under XP (yeah, I know they make a Mac version-just wanted to try it) works great, but there's a text anomaly with some of the menus. Not sure what's going on there.

Make sure you download the FREE anti-virus software AVG Free as soon as you get XP installed. It's updated every day, sometimes several times a day. Very nice anti-virus kit.

Firefox works great so far on my own site. When I use firefox on my 3ghz PC, it sometimes doesn't render the ad banner.

Boot time was much faster than on my  3ghz PC. XP's boot time was approximately 27 seconds on MacBook Pro, over a minute on my 3ghz PC.

Guild Wars was incredibly smooth at highest rez with all detail turned on.

The best thing for me so far-using Oblivion's level editor to make my own levels. That's the primary reason I built a real PC in the first place-to do game mods. Now, I can do it all on the Mac, well, in XP on the Mac anyway.

Next game I'm going to install is Half-Life 2. If you have never played it, you're in for a treat. I've finished it twice so far on the PC, and look forward to playing it on my Mac running XP.

Want to try Unreal's Editor and Half Life 2's editor next. Oh, and NeverWinter Nights 2's editor, and Doom 3's editor, and...

ivanjs - did you have to boot various OSes in a certain sequence?  I've seen reports that booting numerous OSes on Parallels only works in a certain order.

MacBoy4139 wrote:

ivanjs - did you have to boot various OSes in a certain sequence?  I've seen reports that booting numerous OSes on Parallels only works in a certain order.

Wonder why.

I use bootcamp and everything works great except for a couple things

When I plug in headphones and optical cable to my Macbook, and the internal speakers keep playing.

Sometimes when I adjust the brightness using the taskbar slider, Windows crashes.

Back-lit sensors on my Macbook are in active on the Windows side.

And the F-keys that are supposed to adjust the volume and stuff for the Mac OS don't work in Windows but thats no big deal.

I hope they fix the other problems when the final version comes out. I also wish they would allow me to install Windows on an external drive too. Splitting up a 100 Gig HD for 2 OSes kinda sux. Especially when I want Mac OS to have more room than Windows but Windows has all the games that take up much of that space.