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Windows XP and 7 on White Macbook

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Nauthez

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Alright, so I have an old macbook (early 2007) and I was thinking of installing windows xp or 7 thru bootcamp now that I got a bigger hard drive. Anyone know the pros and cons of windows 7 and windows xp with bootcamp? I want something that will give me decent battery life, so looks aren't important. Speed would be a nice thing to have as well. I've tried google, but haven't been able to find any decent information.
Thanks.
 
Nauthez said:
I want something that will give me decent battery life, so looks aren't important.
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Battery life in Boot Camp, regardless of which Windows version you install, isn't nearly as good as it is in OS X. Generally you'll get somewhere between 60-75% battery life in Windows as compared to OS X. So you'll want to temper your expectations of what constitutes decent: generally, getting 3 hours of battery life during casual web browsing is about the best you can hope for, especially on an older MacBook.

Your best bet will be to see if you can do without Windows in the first place.
 
criccio said:
Forget Windws XP even exists and go from there. ;)

/thread
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Haha, that's about it. If you want Windows just go with 7. If there's an XP program you want to run, assuming Windows 7 has problems trying to run it natively, you can run it virtually with the Windows XP Mode available in the Professional and Ultimate versions of Windows 7.
 
Alright, so windows 7 is it! I need windows because we use a java program (netbeans), and haven't found anything similar to that in OSX. If anyone knows a good java compiler for OSX, then there will prob be no need for boot camp.
 
You can also run Windows XP or 7 on VirtualBox within MacOSX. This way, you don't have to reboot your machine just to use that one program. If it's just to use that one program, you're probably better off using XP inside the virtual machine so you have more resources for your host OS while Windows is running.

VirtualBox is free.
 
Nauthez said:
Alright, so windows 7 is it! I need windows because we use a java program (netbeans), and haven't found anything similar to that in OSX. If anyone knows a good java compiler for OSX, then there will prob be no need for boot camp.
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There's an OS X version of Netbeans. Just go to netbeans.org and download it.
 
I have a 2006 MB core 2 and I run Windows 7 professional on it - it runs it near perfect.

Also I tried using Parallels and it wouldn't install. The integrated intel 950m or something wouldn't even bootup the install screen.

The cons are - battery life will be around 75% and it will run much hotter.
 
It still puzzles me, why do you guys get apple, if you eventually want to install Windows on it. Is it the hype??
 
preyash said:
It still puzzles me, why do you guys get apple, if you eventually want to install Windows on it. Is it the hype??
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How about so you can have the best of both worlds. Neither OS is perfect, and each one offers some different features, software etc. There's certain programs that are only found on Windows, and alternatives might not be as good, or even non-existent on the Mac. So why not have Windows on your Mac so you can take advantage of them? Then there's expensive software you might have for one OS that you don't feel like spending hundreds of dollars on, to get an OSX version. I myself have Photoshop for Windows, and you can have it installed on two different computers at the same time.
 
preyash said:
It still puzzles me, why do you guys get apple, if you eventually want to install Windows on it. Is it the hype??
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It's more like people do it, because they can. It's fun to mess around and do things that were not intended to be done. :D
 
^^ that makes sense. my friend is doing the same thing. How does it usually run.
 
zoobaby said:
It's more like people do it, because they can. It's fun to mess around and do things that were not intended to be done. :D
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I'm pretty sure the existence of Boot Camp means that installing Windows is a supported activity. ;)
 
preyash said:
It still puzzles me, why do you guys get apple, if you eventually want to install Windows on it. Is it the hype??
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I find myself asking this very same question sometimes.

But then I go and install linux on my dreamcast, and find my answer.
 
CEpeep said:
:confused:
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Yeah, really. It's pretty universally accepted in the industry that Mac OS X is the best Java development platform out there. You get a full set of tools for free with the system. Why on earth would you downgrade to Java on Windows? If you want third party, at least do Java on Linux. I'd never use Windows as the primary development environment for Java; VB or C#, sure, but for Java you can do so much better.
 
people keep forgetting that XP Mode is only supported on systems with hardware CPU VT support, which many intels do not have. intel has had the technology for years but left it out of many cpus while AMD had it on almost everyone they made
 
What do you guys think of XP versus Vista on my 13"MBP. It is for exam software for school, so please don't say 7 as you are not allowed to run it in xp mode within 7 (against school policy). Battery life if not an issue, as I'll be plugged in for the exams. Also, I have copies of both xp pro and vista pro.
 
Either will work perfectly fine. For me it would be Vista as XP is a dinosaur and has no place on modern machines.

I would like to see the written policy against running the exam software in XP mode. I doubt people who write such "policies" even know what XP Mode is. Sounds like a ridiculous rule.
 
using virtualware to test things out first makes a difference, my friend wanted xp on his mac so we tested it out in virtual mode.
works fine
 
I doubt people who write such "policies" even know what XP Mode is
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The software "locks out" your machine when taking the test so you can't access anything else while writing your exam. It requires a reboot to get into it, so XP mode doesn't work. Not willing to try it, as it's for law school, which has one 3 hour exam that makes up your entire grade. Don't want to have any problems on test day :)
 
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