So Much Nerd!
Posted by: dalas | From: December 9, 2006
Spent today installing Windows XP on my MacBook Pro. Only watch/read this if you are into nerdy stuff. Here's the details:
First of all, the funniest line from the Boot Camp instructions, just in case you don't read the rest of this:
"5. Follow the instructions for any other wizards that appear."
I installed XP using Boot Camp so that I would be able to boot natively into XP in case I ever needed to do that.
Previously, if you wanted to be able to use the Parallels software to use XP at the same time as OSX, you had to install XP twice, because Parallels required its own "hard disk." However, the newest version of Parallels can use the Boot Camp partition as its hard disk, so now you only need to install XP once to have the best of both worlds.
After getting XP running in Parallels, I downloaded VirtueDesktops, which is the software that lets you smack the MacBook to switch between the OSX and XP fullscreen modes. I demonstrated a few different transitions, because they're pretty rad!
Another cool thing about the new version of Parallels is the "Coherence" mode, which is what allows the XP windows to mingle with the OSX windows so that it looks like you're running XP programs in OSX. In reality what has happened is that the XP desktop background has been made transparent.
You can drag files between XP and OSX and it will copy them just like magic!
So there you have it.
Music: Birdman & Lil' Wayne - Stuntin' Like My Daddy
