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    Bootcamp XP on new MacBook

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by JellyGeo, Dec 28, 2008.

  1. JellyGeo

    JellyGeo Notebook Evangelist

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    Greetings - there's already an excellent (and well-illustrated) review here so I just wanted to mention a couple of things about my MB. First of all, I am thrilled with the overall quality of mine ($1268 from Amazon). It is absolutely faultless - very well made. I thought (from reading the directions) that installing Bootcamp would be a little bit of a pain - but it wasn't. It was a very smooth process - I especially liked how the Leopard DVD installed all of the drivers after XP was installed and re-booted. I bought this one for my daughter for college - so now I need to figure out where to get ~ $1800 for a 15-inch MBP for myself.... :( . One last sidenote - there is a touchpad driver update on the Apple site - the link was posted here on NBR a few days ago...
     
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    dbam987 wicked-poster

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    Glad things are going well for you with the MB!

    I'm looking for that link here on the touchpad driver you speak of, but I'm assuming its for the multi-touch pad on the new ones only, right?
     
    dbam987, Dec 28, 2008
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    Colton Also Proudly American

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    Colton, Dec 28, 2008
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  4. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    You certainly can get a refurbed MBP from Apple's website for $1800 if you don't mind the old one.
     
    ZaZ, Dec 29, 2008
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  5. JellyGeo

    JellyGeo Notebook Evangelist

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    Just an update - tonight I loaded Office/etc onto the XP partition. And, just for giggles, I ran good old SWAT4 (from an external/USB HDD), on battery, and it ran very smoothly. I am still very impressed - the new MB's with the Nvidia 9400 graphics are really first class (albeit expensive) systems.... :) Amazon has an MBP for $1768 after rebates - well they did yesterday anyway. Maybe those are the old ones?
     
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  6. Luke1708

    Luke1708 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    yeah!!! macs rule!!!!
     
    Luke1708, Dec 30, 2008
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