forums.macrumors.com— After a few false starts I have finally got a working Vista up and running on my MBP. This is assuming you already have a working copy of XP installed using BootCamp. Here is what I did:
Jun 10, 2006View in Crawl 4
I'm a Windows user and I've already installed another OS over Vista Beta 2. It seems like a copy of XP with Window Blinds for effect. The UAC was annoying also.
True, True. I'd just stick with XP for gaming though. No need to get something even more buggy in there. If you've ever tried network bridging with XP, then your a few dozen BSOD short of the full XP expirience.
"It's you kind of people, with 1gb and upwards of ram, that also complain about how much memory firefox uses. Please, save the bragging for a LAN party."^ Nope, not when it comes to running windows Vista. It's nothing to do with RAM that's making it run slow. It's allll about the graphics card. I have 1.5GB of ram, and a 128mb gfx card. It's the card that's making it slow.(advice to all those curious about installing beta2 - don't, just yet. It's pretty, but it's patronising and slowwwww)
On a 2.16GHZ MBP w/ 2GB of RAM it might be tolerable. I left it running for a few hours (nothing running, not even firewall or AV) and the commit charge spiked to 2.2GB.
xswagJun 11, 2006
I'm a Windows user and I've already installed another OS over Vista Beta 2. It seems like a copy of XP with Window Blinds for effect. The UAC was annoying also.
joeshlubJun 11, 2006
True, True. I'd just stick with XP for gaming though. No need to get something even more buggy in there. If you've ever tried network bridging with XP, then your a few dozen BSOD short of the full XP expirience.
metaphysicalJun 11, 2006
I'm curious to know what the performance is like.
treblahJun 11, 2006
Basically, except for the deleting 2 partitions thing and the "Macintosh Drivers for Windows" CD not working…
Closed AccountJun 11, 2006
"It's you kind of people, with 1gb and upwards of ram, that also complain about how much memory firefox uses. Please, save the bragging for a LAN party."^ Nope, not when it comes to running windows Vista. It's nothing to do with RAM that's making it run slow. It's allll about the graphics card. I have 1.5GB of ram, and a 128mb gfx card. It's the card that's making it slow.(advice to all those curious about installing beta2 - don't, just yet. It's pretty, but it's patronising and slowwwww)
macewanJun 11, 2006
it's not just hardware - it's tasteful hardware - it's beautiful hardware - it's Apple hardware - it's art
feanor512Jun 11, 2006
On a 2.16GHZ MBP w/ 2GB of RAM it might be tolerable. I left it running for a few hours (nothing running, not even firewall or AV) and the commit charge spiked to 2.2GB.