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Jewish World Review
April 12, 2006
/ 14 Nissan, 5766
Windows on a Mac
By
Mark Kellner
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
Having spent the better part of an entire evening on what should have been
a one-hour process, I can report, that yes, Virginia, Windows XP will run
on an Intel-powered Mac, in my case a new-just-out-of-the-box Mac mini
. The mini is a nice little computer, with an 80 Gbyte hard disk
drive and 1 Gbyte of RAM, as well as an Intel Core Duo processor.
The installation process was delayed in part because I had to update both
the operating system on the Mac mini and its "firmware," the software
embedded in the computer's hardware. I then had one hiccup with the
Windows install - a mistyped character when entering the Windows product
key - and had to go to great lengths to undo the damage and get back to
ground zero. Once there, I set the mini's hard disc "partition" to handle
Windows, followed instructions, and I was off and running. Following those
installation instructions carefully, I was able to bring the various Mac
drivers over to Windows, thus making it possible to use the mini's
built-in AirPort 802.11g wireless antenna and the separate
Bluetooth one.
What all this means is that Apple is right when they say you should print
out the install instructions that come with Boot Camp, and follow those
instructions carefully. With Boot Camp, reading the instructions is NOT an
option.
The reward for such reading is a relatively smooth operation. Windows runs
quite nicely on the Mac mini used for this test, due in no small measure,
I'd guess, to that 1 Gbyte of RAM. It might be tempting to max out the Mac
mini's RAM at 2 Gbytes, which adds $300 to the $799 base price of the
top-level mini if you're going to depend on it to run Windows a lot; the
more RAM, the better.
Time didn't allow the loading of a lot of applications, but I did install
the OpenOffice productivity suite and Mozilla's Firefox Web browser. Both
programs ran superbly, and on switching back to the Mac OS, I was able to
access the folder where an OpenOffice document resided and continue
editing it with Microsoft Word. Not so on the return trip - I couldn't
write to Windows folders from the Mac no matter how I tried, because the
Mac won't write files to the NTFS (New Technology File System) structure
that Windows uses as its default disk format. A colleague, John Beckett,
suggests one could format the Windows partition as FAT 32, the initials
standing for File Allocation Table, but that formatting is one Windows
isn't as fond of using. Apple Computer's iDisk, available to
subscribers to its $99 per year ".Mac" service, is a potential
workaround.
Is it all worth it? I suppose, especially for those users wanting to
switch to Macintosh but who still need this or that Windows-specific
program in order to do their daily work. The computer restarting that's
required to make the switch between Windows XP and Mac OS X is a bit
wearing, but if you need to do change from one to the other, that's how it
works. Not only can the boot/reboot process become annoying, but the
inability to run the operating systems side-by-side eliminates the ability
to cut-and-paste between applications on the two platforms. True, Windows
XP runs much faster directly on the Mac mini than it did on previous Macs
via emulation software, but there's another way to handle the question of
two operating systems coexisting on a single Intel-based Mac, a subject I
hope to address next week.
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