Comments on: Running Windows XP on a MacBook Pro

By: John Lauby

John Lauby — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:25:35 +0000

Jia H; The main problem I had in setting up my boot camp partitlion was I wasn’t installing the drivers in the new partition. After installing a full copy of Vista [not an upgrade] you must install the Mac drivers that come on your mac disk. These drivers must be installed in the Vista partition formed by boot camp. Once those drivers are installed it all worked perfectly. L8r John

By: Jia H

Jia H — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:21:30 +0000

Dear John Lauby, I have the same problem as yours. Have you solved it? Please help me. I am going crazy.

By: John Lauby

John Lauby — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:07:09 +0000

I have tried to load a Win XP home w/ SP2 and my MacBook Pro won’t recognize the CD. I went thru the partition and bootcamp to attempt the install. I was advised by Mac support to use VMWare Fusion to switch back and forth without rebooting and VM Ware fusion won’t read the CD either. This is the 2nd CD I tried as I took the first back and exchanged it with another incase it was bad. Any help on the install? Thanx John

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:12:04 +0000

Hey there,
my version of Windows XP Professional does not have SP2. You reccomend reburning the instal disc:
“Use one of the software packages/versions listed in the slipstreaming instructions or it won’t work.”

Question:
1-Where are the slipstreaming instructions?
2-Witch CD burning packages can successfully produce a bootable XP install disc?

Thanks!!

By: running xp on mac pro desktop

running xp on mac pro desktop — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:28:39 +0000

hello,

Can you please guide me that if i hve to run xp on mac pro desktop. how it performs on it.

how the rendering and 3dstudio max works on it.
kindly tell me which mac pro desktop shud i buy?
hope to hear from you guys soon

thanks

By: obed kachy

obed kachy — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:45:19 +0000

Any one helpful enough to help my macbook running xp output sound? Thanks in anticipation…my email(kachyobed@yahoo.com)

By: matt

matt — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:31:32 +0000

posted from my macbook pro running xp

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:02:00 +0000

hey everything on my new MPB is working great in win xp pro sp2 – except audio drivers! it doesn’t recognize them from the mac driver cd. what do I do?

By: Dane

Dane — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:35:33 +0000

If you have Windows XP, why do you use linux?
Basically I dont see any advantages to using linux over windows xp, Im dual booting windows
and ubuntu. Ubuntu is nice and all but I dont see anything that would make me prefer it
over windows.The only thing i have been using ubuntu for is web browsing playing
music/movies (cant play games) which I can do better/hassle free in windows.
So what are the advantages of l using linux over xp?

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:39:08 +0000

Help! I just bought my first MacBook Pro. I’m trying to install XP Pro w/SP2 using bootcamp. I get to the point where XP install asks for the product key…I enter it (yes correctly), but I get an invalid product key message. Has anyone run into this. I’ve tried several different XP Pro w/SP2 product key with the same results.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

By: LiteItUp

LiteItUp — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:51:23 +0000

I am getting a frequent request on start up for drivers in my XP partition for Built-In iSight. Have these drivers been developed? If so, where can I get them? BTW I have two 17″ MBP and I love them. I am digging the Parallels Desktop option. Would I still be able to remap my keyboard to deal with the now famous ctrl-alt-del key pattern?

By: nickel

nickel — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:46:04 +0000

I’m using XP pro and haven’t had any problems (other than the fact that Windows sorta sucks). But… I have since tried out Parallels Desktop and am a huge fan. No dual booting, you can run in full screen mode, and it’s snappy (I do, however, have 2GB of RAM). Try it. They have a 15 day free trial.

By: Zan

Zan — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:48:16 +0000

Nickel, are you using win xp home or pro?
I installed xp home sp2 on my new mbp 2.33GHz
15″ and i encountered very frequent performance
hiccups. Not sure if this is an issue with xp
home or should i try running xp pro?

By: nickel

nickel — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:26:35 +0000

Jonathan, I think it’s a sign that you should buy a Mac…

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:12:40 +0000

Why is it out of my entire RSS reader I have to read this one… I mean, I don’t even own a Mac

By: Compufx

Compufx — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:41:53 +0000

The latest bootcamp also give you a right click by placing two finger on the trackpad (like two finger scrolling) then click. Two finger scrolling also works.

I highly recommend a program called input remapper as well which allows you to do CTL-ALT-DLT with fn-ctl-alt-delete.

fn can also be used as a right click modifier.

With support for iSIght, full sound support, DMA HD access for Mac Pro it is a great option if you need graphic performance that Parallels can not give you.

Also, if you have an ACD display…look for WinACD as a monitor driver for Apple Cinema Displays. Lets you adjust brightness and do other things like change the behaviour of the power button…etc…etc…..

By: Davey G.

Davey G. — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:12:17 +0000

Boot Camp drivers allow a right click from the right side apple key on the Macbooks.. Works perfect!

By: M.

M. — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:56:17 +0000

I love my Macbook, but haven’t yet found the need to have Windows installed. Comforting to know that’s an option, however.

(Also, Microsoft-based two-button mice and Apple’s own invisible-two-button “Mighty Mouse” can be used with most new Macs.)

By: Rich Slick

Rich Slick — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:09:40 +0000

I highly recommend you install Parallels software and run Windows XP as a virtual machine. If you have a core duo processor and plenty of ram you can run both OS X and XP simultaneously.

The best things is you can clone your XP Virtual installs and configure them differently (i.e. one for banking, one for games, one for work, etc).

By: Binary Dollar

Binary Dollar — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:34:05 +0000

I had a Powerbook and I loved it. It’s been put to pasture but my next computer is definitely going to be Mac. I wish they had 2 mouse buttons though…