The Mac OS X Leopard Windows and Mac Review
Bought the Mac OS X Leopard last month because I can run Windows on it. I was expecting great things, and I got just that. This is by far the smoothest operating system to run Windows for me yet.
Lightening fast, and all of the Mac advantages come with it. Everything is running much more stable, and I can run some heavy resources sucking programs in the background as I browse the net. Being a Windows user since the very beginning I had to learn a new way of “right clicking”.
When your use Windows on your Mac Leopard you need to “right click” a different way. You hold two fingers down on your track pad, and click. This does the same as a “right click” does on a PC. As the cliche goes, “once you go Mac, you never go back”. I have to agree 100% with that. I’ll never go back to a PC again.
How To Get Windows Going On Your Mac Leopard System
Your Mac Leopard OS X uses a format called “Boot Camp”. What you do to get Windows installed on your Leopard is access “Boot Camp” while you’re running in Mac mode. Follow the onscreen instructions and you will be partitioning your hard-drive. Then you will be asked to install Windows on the new “Boot Camp” partition. Easy. Very Easy.
Then you have to use a Windows Home or Pro install and it has to be SP2 (or Service Pack 2). If you only have SP1 (or Service Pack 1), you can simply do what they call “slip-streaming” from Sp1 to Sp2. I had to slipstream my Windows Pro Sp2 install. Here is the best site that give you detailed and simple instructions on how to slipstream your Sp1 to Sp2. You’ll need to be running a copy of Nero 6 for the burn process.
Once you’ve installed Windows on your Boot Camp partition, you will be asked to insert your CDROM that came with your Mac. This installs all the stuff (drivers and what-have-you) you need to make your Windows perform like a monster.
Done. Have fun.
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December 29th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
[...] As the struggle was pretty bad as I could not find the software needed what to run on a Mac. My brother-in-law inform me that I could run Windows XP service pack two on the leopard operating system. I was shocked and overjoyed. I then had to slipstream my SP1 to an SP2 version of XP – every once moved and this is the most solid machine are used. You can read more about Macs and the new leopard OS here. [...]