Hi everyone,
Since yesterday, I am a happy MacBook Pro owner, trying to find my way around MacOS, by which I have to say I am really impressed . I have a couple of questions though, and I was wondering if you could help me address them.
I am thinking of installing Windows through Bootcamp, so that I can make my transition to MacOS easier, and be able to use some s/w that I couldn't easily find on Mac. The question is though: Windows XP or Windows Vista? I would ideally like to use my bootcamp windows installation through vmware fusion or parallels. Both though provide experimental support for windows vista. Thus, I was thinking of installing XP and later, when most of the bugs of VMware have been resolved, to upgrade my installation, via bootcamp, to vista. Do you know if something like that is possible? I'm asking, because I've read that bootcamp requires a non-upgrade windows CD. In my case though, I would preform the upgrade process after I have booted my machine in windows.
Also, given the recent release of VMWare Fusion 1 RC, which of the two major virtualization environments would you recomment (Fusion or Parallels)?
Thank you in advance,
-- ernani
Since yesterday, I am a happy MacBook Pro owner, trying to find my way around MacOS, by which I have to say I am really impressed . I have a couple of questions though, and I was wondering if you could help me address them.
I am thinking of installing Windows through Bootcamp, so that I can make my transition to MacOS easier, and be able to use some s/w that I couldn't easily find on Mac. The question is though: Windows XP or Windows Vista? I would ideally like to use my bootcamp windows installation through vmware fusion or parallels. Both though provide experimental support for windows vista. Thus, I was thinking of installing XP and later, when most of the bugs of VMware have been resolved, to upgrade my installation, via bootcamp, to vista. Do you know if something like that is possible? I'm asking, because I've read that bootcamp requires a non-upgrade windows CD. In my case though, I would preform the upgrade process after I have booted my machine in windows.
Also, given the recent release of VMWare Fusion 1 RC, which of the two major virtualization environments would you recomment (Fusion or Parallels)?
Thank you in advance,
-- ernani