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Running Windows on your Mac
Anyone use a MacBook Pro and ONLY running Windows?
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<blockquote data-quote="thomas998" data-source="post: 1015347" data-attributes="member: 111388"><p>Actually I generally run windows on my MBP... probably 95% of the time. For me it was because the lightly used MBP was cheaper than a equal windows laptop with a high end graphics card... but you have to know what you are getting into.</p><p></p><p>To correct what others have said, there is no 32GB limit for the size of your windows partition in bootcamp... You can allocate nearly all the hard drive to windows if you want to, which I would encourage you to do, not because you will never use the OS X but because Snow leopard can access the NTFS partition and use the windows hard drive while Windows will not be able to access the Mac partition (by access I mean read and write).</p><p></p><p>You will have no right mouse button because Steve Jobs is a button-aphobe, so you have to do a little figure gymnastics to for the right clicks that windows relies so heavily on. </p><p></p><p>But if you just want one for windows it will work perfectly for that.... In fact I have had better luck with Windows on my macbook than I have with snow leopard... for whatever reason I've had to do a re-install of snow leopard twice now because the OS corrupted itself somehow.. and windows side has been error free.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thomas998, post: 1015347, member: 111388"] Actually I generally run windows on my MBP... probably 95% of the time. For me it was because the lightly used MBP was cheaper than a equal windows laptop with a high end graphics card... but you have to know what you are getting into. To correct what others have said, there is no 32GB limit for the size of your windows partition in bootcamp... You can allocate nearly all the hard drive to windows if you want to, which I would encourage you to do, not because you will never use the OS X but because Snow leopard can access the NTFS partition and use the windows hard drive while Windows will not be able to access the Mac partition (by access I mean read and write). You will have no right mouse button because Steve Jobs is a button-aphobe, so you have to do a little figure gymnastics to for the right clicks that windows relies so heavily on. But if you just want one for windows it will work perfectly for that.... In fact I have had better luck with Windows on my macbook than I have with snow leopard... for whatever reason I've had to do a re-install of snow leopard twice now because the OS corrupted itself somehow.. and windows side has been error free. [/QUOTE]
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