BootCamp: Ruining Mac Development

"Oh no! No-one will develop for Mac now they can run XP!"

Well - this has been tolerably quick for me on my dual G5 anyway. Who says Macs can't run Windows things... (that's GuestPC running Windows 2000 - usually I have it full screen on the 15" monitor when I am using it, the mouse goes from one to the other as easily as standard Mac screen spanning). Probably no use for games, but fine for stuff that I can't open on the Mac.

Not only is the G5 running this, it's also running Logic Pro 7.1.1, Acquisition, Safari, Mail, iJournal, Photoshop CS2 and whatever stuff is going on in the background.

As you can see, it's a barely touched Windows 2K install, because I have yet to encounter a document I can't open on the Mac.

GuestPC and Virtual PC have been out for ages; Guest PC costs pocket-money (and I think behaves better than Virtual PC anyway). In the unlikely event of getting an infection on either installation from a virus (and yes, I know people don't all get them, but I have had one - relying on Norton and so forth was clearly insufficient - that combined with a failing HD resulted in a very dead PC indeed), just wipe out the disk image they're running from. The Mac remains untouched. If you have loads of disk space, you can make a daily/weekly or whatever backup of your Win2K disk image, and recover from problems very quickly.

In the picture, I am trying an install of ActiveSync to see if having it installed will allow me to install packages on my iPaq. It doesn't, because it cannot use the USB ports :(

( It's a screen grab of a 20 inch LCD. Of course it's huge )

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Forget XBMC.

XBMC is great, right? Really handy, runs on the crippled Xbox (only 64Mb RAM, for example). It's also super-open, supports pretty much every format aside from some combinations of VBR and XviD, and is very easy to use.

BootCamp lets you create a FAT32 or NTFS partition, install an OS as long as it doesn't need to eject the CD during install (at the moment; I dare say the Eject driver will be moved to EFI at some point), and run it natively on a 6.5" x 6.5" dual-core computer with up to 2Gb RAM.

I want MMMC - Mac Mini Media Centre - with support for Apple's Unversal Remote (the floating menu for XBMC is pretty good, really). And HD output via DVI to large-format LCD/Plasma displays...

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http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/

Forget BootCamp - Virtualisation on Intel Macs - Beta release.

lis0r, does this answer that VT question?

*bzz* Parcels :D

Sigma 17-70mm DC - but feels nicer than the 18-50 DC lens. Gotta run and play with that sometime.
And... I'm not allowed to print a review of it, least of all in this application... but 8mm fisheye. I'm never normally excited about camera things, they're sort of a constant background noise, but this is special for me - I like wide-angle photography, and the Sigma is mine, so I like getting new kit for it.

( Yes. It's a car. The cat wouldn't stay still long enough, nor would she wear a hat )

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May, Clover and Ivy all say "Achoo" to Meester Blair.

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Sometimes, I forget just how out of whack my concept of values can be. hexadb pointed out that the 8mm lens I am playing with was expensive.

Yeah.

Still, it's a bloody great toy. I can't wait for Whitby, I'm gonna take pictures of very wide angle boobs architectural features.