My advice: do not.

Expecting no evil I bought a Mac Pro double quad Xeons (sounds good) and installed XP under Bootcamp - normal procedure for this - and looked forward to get a very fast machine for Vegas editing.

However the Bootcamp only lets XP use 2 GB of all my expensive Mac original RAM - and 2 GB is not enough for editing.

Apple will, as usual, not listen to any Windows user needs - so there have been no improvement from them - preceisely as they have sent out the Boot Camp 2.1, which does not work on many machines because of an error about the language codes.

Search this forum about using the mentioned emulator - it seems not to be a good soloution either.

Don't drink the Apple Kool-Aid unless you're buying it to run Mac applications. If you just want to run Windows applications, the there are any number of PC laptops that will perform just as well as a MacBook.

I can't speak for VM Fusion since I haven't used it on my iMAc, but I did try Parallels (instead of Boot Camp) and I found out the hard way Parallels doesn't support firewire, which made capturing in Vegas out of the question.

I run Vegas under Boot Camp and it works fine for the most part. There are some sleazy little glitches Apple snuck in so Windows apps don't look as nice as Mac stuff, and somehow they've made it so you can access the Windows files from the Mac side, but you can't access anything on the Mac side if you're in Windows; but it does work in both platforms, as they advertise. I bought the iMac because I needed to do both, and now I can do both.

I will say this about Apple: It is true they basically blow you off when it comes to Windows issues you're having on their gear, but they are very good about helping with Mac issues. The tech support people have always been friendly and helpful, and it's nice having just one place to call for any issue... unlike PCs, where you've got millions of manufacturers, developers, etc. to deal with.

I hope someday Apple sees the light and gives some attention to the fact they'd sell more computers if they fully supported WIndows applications, instead of just giving lip service about being able to run WIndows.

you can't access anything on the Mac side if you're in Windows

MacDrive has been allowing Windows users to read and write to and from Mac drives for years. It works on standard PCs and Macs running Windows under BootCamp.

Similarly Mac users can read and write to NTFS drives from Mac OSX by using Paragon NTFS for Mac

You can access more RAM under BootCamp if you are running Vista but I think it only increases to about 3GB.

New Hope Media

> I hope someday Apple sees the light and gives some attention to the fact they'd sell more computers if they fully supported WIndows applications, instead of just giving lip service about being able to run WIndows.

Actually, I hope just the opposite: That Apple sees the light and releases OSX for PC's and blows Microsoft out of the water as an OS provider! Once OSX "officially" runs on PC hardware (as opposed to a "hackintosh") I think you'll see a lot more OSX users and software ported to OSX since EVERYONE can dual boot into both OS's. ;-)

~jr

I don't know, Johnny, I have to say, after having run Windows 7 for a couple of months, I'm really thinking I like what Microsoft's got coming out.

I'm certain that I'm biased having been a PC technician for like 15 years now, but seriously, it's an awesome OS.

Steve

Steve, I only played with the beta a bit and I've made my RC DVD but haven't installed it yet, but I agree with you. I'll be one of the early adopters of Windows 7 too. I really like what I see.

~jr

The ultimate irony is that the visionary approach to Windows 7 didn't come from Microsoft's OS architects, but from the European Union High Court.

Facetious? Hardly. MS was told to start unbundling all the fat they had accumulated over the last 20 years, or else.

This made for a much slimmer and more fit OS, the way MS should have done it in the first place, instead of the waddling bloatware we got in Vista (and to a slightly lesser extent in XP).

I'm also looking forward to Windows 7, with hope that it will allow me to run Vegas on a platform that doesn't suck.

I've been a Windows user and administrator continuously since Windows 2.0 (Windows 1.0 was unusable), and I thought Win 3.1 was good for its day, Win 98 and ME sucked wind, Win2K was a sanity saver, Win XP was the same with bloat added, Vista 32 and 64 are sitting on my shelf unused (came with my HP workstation and I hope I never have to use them).

Will Windows 7 be as good as the current alternative OS offerings? Only time will tell.

Will it be as good as the next generation of alternative OS offerings coming out this summer? Only time will tell.

Live long and prosper! :O)

(I just saw the new Star Trek movie, and then immediately after saw Episode 6 from the original, first TV series, now in syndication on KDOC 56 in L.A. Amazingly there was no disconnect between the old and new key characters, including Kirk, Spock, and Bones McCoy. Simon Pegg as Scotty was a bit odd, but serviceable.)