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If thats the case why not go for one of the PC units that looks like a MAC? Your friend will save himself a lot of cash and pain doing it this way.
Why not something like the below?
www.ambros.co.uk/shuttlelist.php
You can now get many PC's that look like MAC's
Why not something like the below?
www.ambros.co.uk/shuttlelist.php
You can now get many PC's that look like MAC's
__LEE__ said:
If thats the case why not go for one of the PC units that looks like a MAC? Your friend will save himself a lot of cash and pain doing it this way.
Why not something like the below?
www.ambros.co.uk/shuttlelist.php
You can now get many PC's that look like MAC's
I can see her point theyre still just not as sexy as a new mac - we have some at work and they just look sooooo much better than normal pc's.
Theres loads of really nice looking cases...
have a look through this site: www.xcase.co.uk/acatalog/Silverstone_Sugo_Series.html
have a look through this site: www.xcase.co.uk/acatalog/Silverstone_Sugo_Series.html
To answer the original question, I used Bootcamp this week to set up a friends new iMac.
Easy peasy.
You set the size of the Windows partition (nice little slider with piccies), it asks you to burn a mac drivers disc 9you'll need this to load the graphics/wireless/sound etc drivers later) and then you pop in the XP disc and away you go.
Once XP is up and running, you pop in the mac drivers disc and it loads them up, re-boots and you're away.
It does exactly what it says on the tin.
Easy peasy.
You set the size of the Windows partition (nice little slider with piccies), it asks you to burn a mac drivers disc 9you'll need this to load the graphics/wireless/sound etc drivers later) and then you pop in the XP disc and away you go.
Once XP is up and running, you pop in the mac drivers disc and it loads them up, re-boots and you're away.
It does exactly what it says on the tin.
Buffalo said:
Does bootcamp allow ALL programmes that run on a PC to run on a mac..? Thinking stuff like CAD based programmes that AFAIK only have a windows code written for them at the moment.
>> Edited by Buffalo on Tuesday 30th May 09:20
AFAIK yes, as it is a complete windows box/installation, just using the Mac hardware. it's not Windows running emulated within Mac OS, it's a completely seperate boot partition.
Cool!! I had been reading this and it was the final clincher in my back and forth decision to buy an apple or not (regular viewers on this forum may recall my many daft questions about changing from MS systems to apple 
).
I figure i'll be fine for 90% of the time on the apple stuff, but there are occasions i need to use MS only progs, so if i can do dual-boot then i'm away i reckon!
). I figure i'll be fine for 90% of the time on the apple stuff, but there are occasions i need to use MS only progs, so if i can do dual-boot then i'm away i reckon!
Buffalo said:That depends on the graphics hardware requirements of the CAD software!!! Macintoshs, both Intel and PPC, don't come with hardware accelerated OpenGL graphics adapters like Nvidia's Quatro range and ATI's FireGL, because there are no drivers available for Macintosh.
Does bootcamp allow ALL programmes that run on a PC to run on a mac..? Thinking stuff like CAD based programmes that AFAIK only have a windows code written for them at the moment.
Software like Unigraphics, Pro/Engineer and Catia are only guranteed to work with this hardware or on dedicated UNIX workstations, and Solidworks iirc too.
If your buying decision depends on having hardware accelerated OpenGL, don't buy a Mac yet. If you need a UNIX-esque environment for dual boot, install Linux beside Windows. Drivers for both graphics-chipsets are provided for Linux by its manufacturers, and at least Pro/Engineer and Maya are supported for Linux too.
Buffalo said:
Does bootcamp allow ALL programmes that run on a PC to run on a mac..? Thinking stuff like CAD based programmes that AFAIK only have a windows code written for them at the moment.
>> Edited by Buffalo on Tuesday 30th May 09:20
We are presently testing Bootcamp on an iMac. We need to use AutoCAD from time to time, this is only available for Windows.
AutoCAD, is working fine on XP using Bootcamp.
Its a huge technical step forward for us, it enables us to run a Mac office network with the ability to use Windows (without emulation) when we need to.
Does what it says on the tin.
Bodo said:
That depends on the graphics hardware requirements of the CAD software!!! Macintoshs, both Intel and PPC, don't come with hardware accelerated OpenGL graphics adapters like Nvidia's Quatro range and ATI's FireGL, because there are no drivers available for Macintosh.
Software like Unigraphics, Pro/Engineer and Catia are only guranteed to work with this hardware or on dedicated UNIX workstations, and Solidworks iirc too.
If your buying decision depends on having hardware accelerated OpenGL, don't buy a Mac yet. If you need a UNIX-esque environment for dual boot, install Linux beside Windows. Drivers for both graphics-chipsets are provided for Linux by its manufacturers, and at least Pro/Engineer and Maya are supported for Linux too.
AHEM! PowerMac G5 has option of QUADRO FX4500 should you need it - for £1100.
pjskel said:Oh yes, you're right - I've researched, and they're still available! Thanks for pointing that out
That depends on the graphics hardware requirements of the CAD software!!! Macintoshs, both Intel and PPC, don't come with hardware accelerated OpenGL graphics adapters like Nvidia's Quatro range and ATI's FireGL, because there are no drivers available for Macintosh.
Software like Unigraphics, Pro/Engineer and Catia are only guranteed to work with this hardware or on dedicated UNIX workstations, and Solidworks iirc too.
If your buying decision depends on having hardware accelerated OpenGL, don't buy a Mac yet. If you need a UNIX-esque environment for dual boot, install Linux beside Windows. Drivers for both graphics-chipsets are provided for Linux by its manufacturers, and at least Pro/Engineer and Maya are supported for Linux too.
AHEM! PowerMac G5 has option of QUADRO FX4500 should you need it - for £1100.
It's likely that they will be offered again when the Power Mac precedessor with Intel architecture is introduced; however that means that you'd have to wait anyway to have boot camp and quadro graphics in one machine.
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