Intel iMac


I finally set up the iMac with a Windows partition via BootCamp. It works surprisingly well. Holding down the option key during startup allows me to choose which operating system. I think Apple's got a winner here: the best of both worlds.

The downside: welcome to the insecure world of Windows. Right off the bat, I installed Norton Antivirus, the I installed all the Windows updates, then I went out and got SpyBot Search & Destroy. I couldn't believe that SpyBot already found stuff on the machine. I had only been to Microsoft's website & Google to get SpyBot. Insane. I don't think I'm going to do much surfing in Windows.

Another minus: Windows can't see the Mac partition at all, since I formatted the Windows partition as NTFS. Buzz. My iPod (formatted for Mac) is unrecognizable too. I think I'll take the simple way out and use my old iMac as a server, probably by running Samba.

I had one crash while in XP, when I clicked on "Video Camera" in My Computer. XP sees the built-in iSight camera, apparently, but doesn't know how to use it.

A side note: I didn't know that XP had fast user switching, even though we use XP at work. I guess it doesn't fly using Active Directory?

Posted: Tue - August 1, 2006 at 09:25 AM      

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