Macbook Pro and Windows?

Hey guys, Im in the market in getting a Macbook Pro, as i recently sold my toshiba

however i have someo questions that needs answer to that i can't find,
I know the macbook pro can run Windows XP with bootcamp, but I don't really like the fact of dual boot, is it possible to just have windows XP installed on the mbp instead of both?

and also, where am i able to find drivers for the mbp to use in windows xp???

Thanks

 

TBH what is the point of getting an MBP if your only wanting XP on it? You can get a much cheaper PC for that purpose. What sells the MBP is OSX and the styling. If you don't want to keep switching then just use something like Parallels to run windows while still in OSX. But understand that if you want to play games Parallels won't handle it as well as Bootcamp.

As for the drivers they should all come with bootcamp as far as i know or you can probably download them.

 

im gettin the MBP for its looks and also would like to try out the OSX, however im only asking about windows xp since I would be doing gaming on it

 

For now, you'll have to dual boot with bootcamp.

 

To be Frank, you have no plan to use the Mac as a Mac. If you just want to try out OSX then you really won't be dual booting that much. Sounds like you will be on the Windows side almost all of the time and occasionally play with OSX so again, dual booting shouldn't be the pain you claim it to be.
I just think you want the Mac for the hardware because you don't like what's on the PC side. Just keep in mind that it's a "Mac". Apple is not going to let you remove OSX to run Windows, they don't make the Macs for that reason. Just get a Sony PC and be done with it.

 

Yeah would be a waste of money

Dual booting is good, It's not like the option screen to pick an OS comes up on each boot, it would just go to OSX automatically

What you do is hold the option key when booting, to get the option to load windows or OSX.. What's wrong with that?

 

I thought you could set the MBP to boot up windows automatically everytime you power up.

 

...uh what? Does apple somehow rig their hardware in such a way that it's impossible to reformat your hard drive and pop an entirely different OS on it? That seems sort of.. stupid, and highly unlikely. Especially since the hardware is now, like.. Intel. friggin Santa Rosa.

Of course one should be able to wipe a MBP's HDD clean and install an entirely OS, such as a lovely Ubuntu Fawn!

I suppose I could be mistaken, but if so, I'd like to see some details sourced as to what gives the hardware the ability to choose to run only one OS unless called by a boot manager that's Mac Proprietary

 

This is a silly debate.

Yes it can be done, but you have to do it yourself. The drivers can be made by Apple's BootCamp software, and you might find them somewhere on the web. Google it.

 

Or just leave the OS X partition at minimal size and set the Startup Disk to be the Windows volume. Then you won't even notice there is OS X on there unless you want to.

Not that I can see why you would want to run Windows fulltime when you have the option of OS X... but to each their own.

 

I have to laugh at the amount of time I read Mac people stating why would you buy a Macbook/Pro or any type of Mac to exclusively run windows ... have any of you guys looked at the industrial design of most windows only notebooks lately ... they suck ... fat, ugly, heaps of vents all over the place etc etc ... only a few exceptions to the rule, but I can fully understand someone preferring the mac hardware.

Yes, you can run windows exclusively, but then you lose the ability to create boot camp updated drivers should they be released, unless you have another mac handy