Bootcamp Beta

While I don't think is a blow to Parallels (in my mind Boot Camp and Parallels are for two different things and appeal to two different type of users), this announcement is pretty nice.

iSight and Mic support make this update alone worth it.

rogabean, generally I do tend to agree with you. But the one thing that I will say is that I hate not being able to use my iSight on MSN Messenger in Parallels. I have often doubted the quality of the iSight signal sent over aMSN, especially when compared to photobooth. I'm anxious to see how it works now in Boot Camp

now... this news let me think again not to whip my xp installed, i am planning to reformat it for preparation to leopard beta..... this will be a nice update.. no more blue screen of death when double clinking the cam usb icon on "My Computer".. this happens on the previous earlier betas

rogabean, generally I do tend to agree with you. But the one thing that I will say is that I hate not being able to use my iSight on MSN Messenger in Parallels. I have often doubted the quality of the iSight signal sent over aMSN, especially when compared to photobooth. I'm anxious to see how it works now in Boot Camp

True True. I should have expanded. To me Parallels is aimed (right now anyway) at the same people who would have used VPC. They need to run Excel, or maybe some special software that has no OS X equivalent. Maybe just to test things in.

Boot Camp is for those who need to run a full speed Windows and have access to their hardware properly, such as you with the iSight camera. That is why I said iSight and the Mic make this update worth it.

And hell who knows this might actually benefit indirectly Parallel users. If Parallels can get the iSight camera to show up, Apple has now provided the driver.

Honestly it's win-win all around.

kickass.

kickass.

ek number... zakaaasss..

wait a second. whats up with the sound driver for the macbook pro? does it still only route through the external speakers? it would be nice to have headphone support without having to install a different driver.

Wow installed it and windows runs like it shuld on intel hardware and with the supoprt of isight i can finally dump mac os x for xp on my macbook pro..

SIKE nice update i just dont see my macbook runing xp sorry

Can i use my two fingers for right click on XP Pro on this version? (as well as the right hand key)

thanks for the update Suleiman!

Yay! Right clicking support.

Hey Colonels! So do the new drivers support right clicking with the two touch on the touchpad as well?

Hey Colonels! So do the new drivers support right clicking with the two touch on the touchpad as well?

I would be also most interested in this news.

Hey Colonels! So do the new drivers support right clicking with the two touch on the touchpad as well?

I assume that the drivers are for ctrl+clicking, but I'll find out shortly.

UPDATE I haven't gotten right clicking to work at all except for with a USB mouse. I'll keep trying to get it to work.

The new iSight driver.

This is really great. I was hoping Boot Camp would continue to grow and this is a great start. Maybe this will have me switching form parralels.

aww, its sweet. iSight works perfectly, although its a bit grainy. Also, sound driver works perfectly. It's great.

How would I use this new version, insted of usng the one I am using now?

bronxbomber, after installation there will be an option to burn a new Drivers CD. Insert a blank disc and burn away. Then boot into XP and run the installation software on the disc, that should be all you need to get the new drivers up and running!

Installed it tonight, and the iSight works fine with Windows Live Messenger. It's not as clear as running iChat in OS X, but still, it's pretty cool to be able to use it finally.

I guess what would be really cool is if iChat in OS X can video chat with Live Messenger in XP/Vista someday. But I understand that's probably a pretty tall order.

So... there was a trackpad driver installed... but it didn't really do anything for trackpad functionality. I mean.. I can still track and click... there still isn't any tapping or double scrolling. --- Also has anyone figured out how to perform secondary keyboard functions like print screen and scroll lock? I can't find it documented...

right clicking works and is a nicer reach in my opinion, though the right click gets stuck and i find myself tapping right apple to release it for normal clicking... bliuetooth is working fine despite other complaints and isight is working . all around an AWESOME update.

ek number... zakaaasss..

Well Said...

Sahi bolte...

Has anyone been able to get this to work with the EFI partition removed for Vista installs?

I'm getting this error

and as a result, Bootcamp won't load to let me create a driver CD.

er..... nobody can read the error message, your image is too small!

You may have to put your EFI partition back. Check around for more info.

just wondering

how are the delete, printscreen keys mapped on MB and MBP's?

Just burn the drivers disk directly?