Almost everyone in the Windows world uses NTFS over the older FAT32 system however, while Mac OS X can read NTFS volumes, it can't write to them, whereas it can both read and write to FAT32 volumes. My MacBook Pro has a 100GB internal drive, so I dedicated 20GB to Windows.Īnother choice here is what filing system to use for your Windows partition. If you choose a partition (as I did, so as to keep everything inside my laptop), you can set how much to leave for your Mac files and how much to use for Windows. Boot Camp can be downloaded from and installing it is a simple matter of following a few steps in the Assistant and setting whether you want to install Windows on a dedicated drive or a partition. Installing Apple's own Boot Camp software and getting Windows to run is pretty straightforward, although it's worth remembering that Apple still classify this as a beta, so it may not be perfect (the final version should ship with the next major version of Mac OS X, in 2007). So this month I wanted to share some thoughts about the computing equivalent of being 'an Englishman in New York'. But this time I figured that now the Macbook Pro is perfectly capable of running Windows (in theory, as well as any Windows-only portable), taking one laptop would be much more convenient for travel. On such trips in the past I've always ended up taking two laptops with me: a Powerbook and an IBM Thinkpad - one for Mac OS, one for Windows. We take another look at running Windows on Intel Macs and consider how Apple's latest acquisition will affect their professional video and audio software.ĭuring the last month I spent nearly three weeks in Europe (I normally live and work in the USA), which meant relying on my Macbook Pro to be my main machine and cater for all my computing needs. A new beta of Parallels Workstation enables you to run your existing Boot Camp partition as a virtual machine, saving you from needing to have two copies of Windows installed on your Mac, and hopefully a few reboots.

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