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    2 Questions - Bootcamp and parallels

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by nemapau, Jan 17, 2007.

  1. nemapau

    nemapau Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well, first about bootcamp. Are there any new drivers I should be looking for or instaling, other than those that came with bootcamp? Like, for instance, i can't get the finger click on the trackpad to work, I can only click with the button, while in windows, of course. Is there any fix to that? And, are there any newer video drivers?

    Than second: I was in the Apple site, in the downloads section, and found the Parallels v2.2, and it said: shareware. I didn't know it was free, and I got interested, how exatly does it work? Do you recomend it? Is it to complicated?

    Well, thanks in advance guys...
     
    nemapau, Jan 17, 2007
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  2. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    Answer to first: No. Apple have not released any new drivers. You will probably have to wait till Leopart is released for an update.

    Answer to second: Parallels is not free. The download is a 30 day trial or something. It is a virtual machine, allowing you to run other Operating Systems in your Mac (no need to reboot, and you can still use OS X alongside whatever else you're running in the Virtual Machine). I highly recommend it. It is not complicated to use.
     
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    Starlight Notebook Evangelist

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    A warning about Parallels however: it does not (yet, at least) support 3D-utilizing when you are running Windows in it, so if you want Windows for gaming you need to use Boot Camp. Well, unless you only play non-3D games of course :)
     
    Starlight, Jan 18, 2007
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  4. nemapau

    nemapau Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok, thanks guys. One more thing though, does it create a virtual drive or something like that, or is it easy to uninstall?
     
    nemapau, Jan 18, 2007
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    You have a choice when it comes to Parallels. You can make it boot from the Boot Camp partition, or create its own virtual drive.
    If you create a virtual drive, a .hdd file would be created on your HD, which is the size of your allocated Win XP partition. To remove the XP partition, simply trash the .hdd file.
    Uninstalling Parallels is not difficult either. Just run the uninstall pkg file.
     
    Budding, Jan 18, 2007
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  6. nemapau

    nemapau Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks man
     
    nemapau, Jan 19, 2007
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