Thinking about switching

I have never been a huge fan of apple. But I need a new laptop and I am really leaning towards an MBP. One of the main reasons I have been so drawn to it is the fact that I can now put windows on it.

My main question is I pick up a copy of vista or xp and I use boot camp is it just that simple to put windows on an mbp? or is there anything else I should know?

Btw... this forum has been full of great information that has really led me to look more into apple. Thanks

 

Well, I was very much in the same boat as you just a week ago. Long time windows user, turned to using a MBP dual boot with OS X and XP. The XP install on a MPB isn't bad at all, (if everything goes according to plan, that is).

After I had installed XP and was installing the drivers using my Boot camp burned CD, XP crashed in the middle of the processors PCI bus driver install. It wasn't good. I had to delete the partion and reinstall XP again. It worked the second time. But it took my about 8 hours to get everything running with the new drivers, but I doubt the same thing would happen to someone else.

The only thing I really noticed that's a problem with XP on the MBP is that the battery life stinks (2 hours max on XP, while on OS X 4+ hours) and that some of the extra perks of OS X don't transfer over to XP. Oh, and the keyboard is a little different, which makes you have to learn what the apple keys mean in XP.

I use OS X for my pictures/movies while I use XP for my gaming/other software I need to run on windows. I would highly recommend the MBP with the dual boot.

 

It is pretty much that simple. Boot Camp is maturing well and many of the issues early on have been fixed. However I would not recommend buying a MBP if you plan on not using OS X. You can get a Windows machine for less that will have support and be designed to run Windows. If you will be using OS X then I say go for it.

 

100% Agreed.