Apple has released Boot Camp 1.4 beta which contains several updates and is intended for all new and previous Boot Camp beta users.
Boot Camp 1.4 beta includes:
• Support for keyboard backlighting (MacBook Pro only)
• Apple Remote pairing
• Updated graphics drivers
• Improved Boot Camp driver installer
• Improved international keyboard support
• Localization fixes
• Updated Windows Help for Boot Camp
Updating to Boot Camp 1.4 beta
If you previously installed Boot Camp beta, you can easily update to Boot Camp 1.4 beta. You don’t need to partition your hard drive again (unless you want to change its size) or reinstall your Macintosh and Windows software or documents, but it’s very important to update the Boot Camp Assistant software, create a new Mac Drivers CD and install the updated software it contains onto Windows. Complete instructions are provided in the Installation and Setup Guide included with the Boot Camp 1.4 beta software.
More info and download link here.
Downloading it now on my MBP……here’s to hoping that the GeForce 8600M GT drivers are better in OpenGL now.
This was expected…I figured the new iMac video drivers needed to be provided sooner or later..
TIME TO BUY!!
Thanks Apple, now my boots are snappier!
I tried Boot Camp, and although I thought the idea was brilliant and it worked very very well (as well as Windoze can hehe), my hard drive was being thrashed.
Is this normal? I mean I could hear my normally silent (under OS X) hard drive being read like crazy, the fan comes on after 2 minutes and stay on until I reboot into OS X.
Is this normal behaviour for Boot Camp?
The little HD in the boot option feels snappier!
“I mean I could hear my normally silent (under OS X) hard drive being read like crazy, the fan comes on after 2 minutes and stay on until I reboot into OS X.
Is this normal behaviour for Boot Camp?”
It’s fairly normal behavior for Windows XP, being a bloated piece of crap. (Plus if you got some spyware or virus on there, that would really do it.)
Actually what you were most likely seeing was Windows straining to detect & download all 230 patches that have been released since your windows disc was created.
I’m not sure how they do it, but Micrsoft is really good at making things that are quick on other systems (HD search pre-spotlight, software update inventory) take FOREVER and consume tons of system resources.
They had to release a patch for the automatic updates client earlier this year, in fact, because systems were pegging at 100% CPU and becoming completely unresponsive for like half an hour while pulling updates.