Update on Windows on the MacBook
I just posted a comment over on the G’Day World Blog, and thought you guys might find it interesting…
Hiya Cam,
I picked up a MacBook Pro because of the bootcamp announcement. I was debating what laptop to get for th new business, and wanted a Mac, but like you was thinking that it might be a waste if OSX just didn’t do the job for me - I’m still a Windows nut at heart.
Anyhow, bootcamp works great - am doing dev work, runing the usual apps and GuildWars runs perfectly :-)
I’m also using the Parallels workstation beta when booted into OSX to run Outlook and MindManager.
Anyhow - great laptop - with two caveats.
- No second mouse button - you gotta ctrl-click in Parallels and install a hack for bootcamp to get one.
- No delete key. Yes it says “delete” on the keyboard, but Windows sees it as backspace. That makes doing ctrl-alt-del a problem when logging in! Parallels has a menu option to send a ctrl-alt-del, but bootcamp has no option. You need to plug in a usb keyboard to get logged in, then use a key remapper like the one in the Windows resource kit to map another key to delete. I just remapped F12.
Anyhow, no regrets. The machine is ultra-sexy. It’s all worth it for the backlit keyboard :-)
Cheers,
Steve
And there ya go…
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I got windows and osx bootcamp'd now. works like a charm and really moves on the windows side. Well Chuffed. :)
hi there - I havre a macbookpro, bootcamping windows like a dread, except for the issues mentioned.
Found this post whilelooking for a way to activate my lovely backlit keyboard while in windows.
hi steve! *waves*
Hey there,
Just noticed you said that you couldn't use the delete button to delete in Windows. It works exactly the same with the function key, hold it down and it will delete, (so ctrl+alt+del is ctrl+alt+func+del) Hope this helps