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Wow, bootcamp must be amazing and seemingly solves all my problems of why I came here in the first place: to dual boot XP with OSX! I've had a lot of fun in the past working bugs out of my hackintosh to perfect OSX, learning so much in the process. Alas, it seemed to always be so far from flawless and was always frustrating when a new version came out.

Now seeing bootcamp makes me contemplate on getting a real Mac to cease my troubles and make my dream computer: XP for games and downloads, OSX for movie production (a big part of my life that has always been hungry for more). But before I go off to but the newest Intel iMac and sell my PC, I would like to know if there are any bugs, disadvantages, anything that would deter me from buying one. 99% of my life is windows, am I ready for the change and will my XP experience change in any way?

 

Advantages so far:

 

- OSX AND XP!!!!!!!

 

- XP with the beauty of a Mac !

 

- Smaller space compared to big computer tower

 

 

What I would like to know:

 

- Windows XP buggy? crashes? In any way it's not equal to WinXP on PC

 

- Internet running flawlessly?

 

- Single player and online games working? (BF2, WoW, etc.)

 

- Any applications you have had trouble installing on Intel iMac XP

 

- Hardware difficulties running any application or game on iMac XP? (one button mouse & squarish keyboard? :) )

 

- Anything that may be a problem in the future (Vista?)

 

 

Any points/counterpoints & questions you would like to add. Input greatly appreciated!

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Hi,

I have an iMac 17"

Basically, I've had Boot Camp WinXp installed for a few days and it works perfectly, besides the virus and other malaware including adware and spyware that I've already got in less than three days!

Your questions and answers:

 

- Windows XP buggy? crashes? In any way it's not equal to WinXP on PC?

No, no, no. It works as a normal very fast PC

 

- Internet running flawlessly?

Yes, completely

 

 

- Single player and online games working? (BF2, WoW, etc.)

Perfect. I've been playing COD2 just ten mins ago. Very, very, very fast!

 

- Any applications you have had trouble installing on Intel iMac XP?

No

 

- Hardware difficulties running any application or game on iMac XP? (one button mouse & squarish keyboard? blink.gif )

No. The CTRL-ALT-DEL is, i think, CTR-SHIFT-ESC e.g.

 

- Anything that may be a problem in the future (Vista?)

Who knows, but Leopard will probably inlcude Vista compatibility. Or at least it will support when Vista is released, if the day comes.

 

All and all, the experience is great and it make appreciate even more the greatness of OSX

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Then it seems like you've almost convinced me in less then 3 hours. I thought it was going to take at least a day! Thank you very much for your answers, profetes and colonel. I encourage you to keep testing out the limits of the XP iMac and if you enocunter any problems of the slightest you are welcome to post them here :happymac: If all goes well, I'll probably buy an iMac within the week, if i'm lucky and feeling up to it maybe today!

 

I have a few more questions I thought up:

 

- Graphics? on games? in general? quality vs. performance?

(I read the forum for the ATI driver and how it fuzzy'd up the picture)

 

- this is probably true: all usb accessories w/o a hitch in XP? (thinking about Mac hardware and XP compatibility again)

 

The only thing that miiight turn me off this path is when I think of upgrades. As RVSB put it "I pick it up throw it out and buy a new one! So Easy!" hah, expencive. So,

 

- Mac owners, can I upgrade my Mac? Mobo? Ram? (just checking) and graphics?

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Hi,

I have an iMac 17"

Basically, I've had Boot Camp WinXp installed for a few days and it works perfectly, besides the virus and other malaware including adware and spyware that I've already got in less than three days!

Your questions and answers:

 

- Windows XP buggy? crashes? In any way it's not equal to WinXP on PC?

No, no, no. It works as a normal very fast PC

 

- Internet running flawlessly?

Yes, completely

- Single player and online games working? (BF2, WoW, etc.)

Perfect. I've been playing COD2 just ten mins ago. Very, very, very fast!

 

- Any applications you have had trouble installing on Intel iMac XP?

No

 

- Hardware difficulties running any application or game on iMac XP? (one button mouse & squarish keyboard? blink.gif )

No. The CTRL-ALT-DEL is, i think, CTR-SHIFT-ESC e.g.

 

- Anything that may be a problem in the future (Vista?)

Who knows, but Leopard will probably inlcude Vista compatibility. Or at least it will support when Vista is released, if the day comes.

 

All and all, the experience is great and it make appreciate even more the greatness of OSX

 

If youv'e gotten adware/spyware within three days you shouldn't be running XP. There are a few very easy steps to make XP virus and adware free. in fact, if you know what your doing, Windows is every bit as stable and secure as Os X.

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I'd disagree slightly with the last page as there isn't any spyware per-se on OS X, and there have only been a handful of virus prototypes. But horses for courses etc.

 

I'm on a 17" iMac and was playing Halo on multiplayer internet mode at full 1440x900 on highest settings going at really smooth 62fps with full sound too. I've got a USB webcam, scanner and printer set up too.

 

Not had any major probs really. Go for it!

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XP is dead solid. It's just like using normal PC hardware, except easier, only one driver package to deal with.

 

Both of my usb printers are working flawlessly.

 

I'm using a microsoft intellimouse, i need my scroll and real ergonomics, Apple mice plain suck

 

bluetooth keyboard works

 

wifi and wired internet connection works

 

games work

WoW

COD2

HL2

CS:S

BF2

FEAR

 

I have never owned a mac before. I have been contemplating a new PC and said, hey why not. I bought my 20" iMac the day BootCamp came out. I'll never look back. I love OSX, i love the hardware and packaging. I love gaming in XP.

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Great, great! I'd like to see somebody post something about the fuzzy issues their having in more detail aswell. Does anyone with an iMac not see the grain stuff everyone is talking about?

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Let's make the things clearer.

 

Boot camp is just an assistant to help you to create a drivers CD and prepare/resize/cancel a Windows partition.

 

The ability to start windows (and others OSes) is given in the new Apple Firmware (legacy boot support).

 

I have had XOM and since i have updated my firmware i don't need it anymore, i can boot on XP and i just had to update to the new drivers from Apple.

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Hello there,

I'm an experienced XP user and once-in-while OSX user. The one I prefer is by far OSX. But as a 3ds max user I thought I was stuck with XP. Bootcamp changes the rules.

My questions are the same as leadhead with this addition :

- Has anyone used 3ds max intensively on a Macbook pro without any gliches ? I would guess so, but I want to be 100% sure before spending 2000E worth of hardware...

Thanks

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Hello there,

I'm an experienced XP user and once-in-while OSX user. The one I prefer is by far OSX. But as a 3ds max user I thought I was stuck with XP. Bootcamp changes the rules.

My questions are the same as leadhead with this addition :

- Has anyone used 3ds max intensively on a Macbook pro without any gliches ? I would guess so, but I want to be 100% sure before spending 2000E worth of hardware...

Thanks

 

Can't speak for 3ds max, but I use Maya, and absolutely no problems.

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  • 2 months later...

Well I've done it, I am currently writing to you on my 20" iMac, XP side :angry: and I love it. I got my Battlefield 2 working at full specs, as well as Half-Life 2: Ep 1, they both run beautifly. I still have my PC right next to me if this ever jamms up and being an experienced XP user, I knew exactly why some people's screens looked grainy "like a compressed jpg". It's cause they must have a wide screen and the video driver can only nicely handle one resolution, mine was 1600x1520, or something like that; anything else would give me a bulky feel. This is also what happens if you try to play movies on your TV throug an S-cable out on your laptop which is where i immediatly noticed it from.

 

Only 2 small problems I've found, one of which seems not to be an issue on the forums yet.

 

1. When I try to shut down from the XP side, all it does is restart to the waiting grey screen where you press the option button. It will just boot back into windows, I have to go into the OSX side to properly shut down. Nothing big, but it does get annoying.

 

2. My bluetooth works in a way, windows detects it, but it doesn't work. This happens at every startup and to get it working I have to remove my keyboard from the list and add it again, even then it sometimes doesn't work saying that "a problem occured installing the new hardware...might not work, etc." and it doesn't. Again, annoying. Solution: USB mouse, i know but i'm too lazy to go scavenging for one around my house right now.

 

Anyway I like iMac XP so much that I think i'm going to make it my main gaming PC.

 

O, sorry, gaming MAC! :D

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  • 3 years later...
I have just got myself a macbook pro and was looking at running windows zp through bootcamp. someone earleir in this post mentioned something about virus's. will i have to have virus and spyware software installed?

 

 

I don't use spyware and virus's, I only use OsX to download stuff, I don't dare to use internet on the windows side.

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