“The new Vista Pre-RC1 build (5536) works now on Intel Macs. The installation procedure is the same as with Windows XP SP2. The only down side is that not all the drivers provided in Boot Camp will work under Vista; the iSight and the Apple keyboard will not install… All the bells and whistles of the new Aero GUI are supported on my MacBook Pro, and according to online reports even the plain MacBook supports all of the new effects,” Kerim Hadzic reports.
Full article with photos of Vista running on an Apple MacBook here.
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Dude, you got a Dell? What are you, stupid? Only Apple Macs run both Mac OS X and Windows! – April 05, 2006
WHY!!!
looks like the only people buying and installing Vista will be intel mac users lol
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I just LOVE how MDN skipped most important sentence of that blog post with “…”. What is it with this web site. Is this Fox News?
Ugh… way to ruin a new MBP
because we can
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Whats weird is the blog says the pictures are showing Windows Vista running on his Macbook Pro.
The thing is the pictures are showing a white Macbook.
“Ugh… way to ruin a new MBP”
Considering that a whole bunch of new MBs and MBPs suffer from random shutdowns, overheating, noise and who knows what else, they are already ruined.
Great more bugs come to the intel macs.
Looks like the mac mini advertising BYOKDM but worse.
BYOVM: bring your own viruses and malware.
I have a mbp and two homebrew pcs. one with vista and one with xp. tell ya truth, i like xp more than vista. and if anyone knows about it, I CAN STAND HOW IT F*&*’S UP THE SCREEN EVERY SINGLE TIME I TRY TO INSTALL A PROGRAM OR JUST PLAY A GAME!! HEY MICROSOFT, HERE’S AN IDEA, WHEN I TELL VISTA ‘YES LET THIS PROGRAM RUN’ REMEMBER THAT SETTING!!! gosh
If ron’s “WHY!!!” is actually supposed to be the question, “Why?” then the answer is:
Embrace first, then extinguish.
It’s explained “WHY!!!” here: Millions of Windows-only users will now get to see for themselves what they’ve been missing. We all know what happens when people really try a Mac. They want to use the Mac and they dislike using Windows more and more. Eventually, they figure out ways to use Windows as little as possible or stop using it altogether.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments_opinion/9142/
you know embrace and extinguish is great is there is something to extinguish. From my tinkering with Visla, I think it is nothing, and let me say that again…NOTHING I would consider installing on any machine, why tarnish a nice shiny new mac-pro quad??. Run linux if you want, it is way better anyway.
I SO TOTALLY GET IT NOW!!!!
I was at the University of Arizona Bookstore the other day and there was a black MacBook running a weird looking copy of Windows. Just mousing around with it I couldn’t tell that it was Vista. I thought someone had just re-skinned XP to match the MB. He he he he he he.
iDrew
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The sentence that was skipped with “…” was a sentence about the build of vista and had nothing to do with the mac at all. MDN gets guff for talking too much about windows, and then when they cut out the parts that aren’t relevant to the mac, they get more guff. Damned if the do, damned if they don’t…
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The community here is mostly full of sheep who don’t even RTFA. They accept that the excerpted material is all they need to know, and anything contrary to or inconsistent with that material is uninformed, biased, or heretical.
Although to be fair, MDN doesn’t usually post articles with anything positive to say about the Windows family at all. So it’s not usually difficult to bury their heads in the sand. Still, I’ll bet 90% won’t click to read it even after you pointed it out.
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MDN has run every scrap of negative press about Vista’s performance as if it is somehow Mac news. By that standard, isn’t positive press also related?
Cue MacDude: “Vista will be your bastard OS”
I think Apple might be preparing for the eventuality of becoming a PC vendor.
It’s just too temptating for Apple to ignore, they need to sell hardware, lots of hardware with all those Apple Stores.
*sniffle* I’m going to miss Mac OS X. *sniffle*
The whole point of posting such a story is to let Windows users know that buying a Mac will not preclude their ability to run Vista. So from a Windows user’s point of view, the Mac is a safe purchase. That is why this story is relevant.
MDN magic word “earth,”
as in “Earth to whiners, earth to whiners.” Stop trying to defeat the campaign to capture the switchers.
Windows XP Pro SP2 is useable if it is well protected.
No one will upgrade to Vista until Vista is just as useable.
The way you upgrade to a new OS in the Windows world is very simple. You buy a new computer with Vista pre-installed. You load fresh copies of the programs you use on your new computer, updating versions where necessary, you transfer your old files to the new computer and you recycle your old computer. Any other method is just asking for a whole world of software trouble.
Yes quite “pretty”, assuming you only want one Finder, sorry Vista Explorer window and no other windows open at once. Oh, it’s the System Info window, well no difference really.
What is the deal with all that wasted space anyway? Do you think they could have spaced out the contents of that window any further?
Take a look at the icons and onscreen keyboard – still woeful pixelated XPesque, childish, garishly coloured graphics!
Here’s some concepts for MS to consider that Apple has developed to a fine art – less is more and elegance comes from a state of mind, not a sales slogan. But I guess you have to distinguish Vista from OS X somehow.
I’ll give credit where credit is due. I’m impressed with the way the image seen through the translucent window is blurred. Very nice touch.
That said, Apple figured out that have the window too translucent was annoying, and I think Vista will be even worse.