Hi,
I definitely understand where your friend is coming from and shared
his concerns before having tried Boot Camp. Apple did, however,
create Boot Camp in such a way that many of the things that
traditionally presented issues, became, well, non issues. Boot Camp
handles all aspects of partition resizing and handles the creation and
installation of an appropriately configured boot loader. What exactly
it does, or how it does it is I'm sure documented somewhere, but for
the end users, it's pretty automatic. I believe Boot Camp can even
remove a Windows operating system thereby resizing the existing Mac
volume.
Please don't feel that I'm trying to convince you to use Boot Camp, or
that I'm questioning the wisdom of your friend. I wouldn't reject it
out of hand, however, as Apple really has done a great job overcoming
many of the obstacles traditionally faced with dual booting and has
done it in a very user friendly way. If you're thinking of Boot Camp
as an option, you may want to google technical articles on the subject
and get your friend's opinion.
Steve
On Jul 29, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Tiffany D wrote:
My friend has been using computers since the 1970's and knows several
operating systems. He said that as a rule, he personally doesn't duel
boot because he knows what goes on under the hood. He said that it's
very hard to uninstall an os if necessary and should something go
wrong, which he does say is unlikely, it might cause a problem with
booting on the Mac side. He did say that perhaps, Apple has fixed
alot of these issues and Bootcamp might be a great program, but he
hasn't used it and hasn't had enough time to play with VoiceOver and
the Mac in general. Anyway, there's the added benefit of just being
able to delete a virtual machine if something goes wrong and I can
move files from one side to the other more easily than I can with a
duel boot. I can also run Leopard while running Windows so if I need
to use both systems at once, I can. All of that said, I'm curious
about the problems that Fusion has caused you. I'd like to know the
pros and cons here. I know that vmware requires drivers and that it's
a little slower to run certain things like Skype under it, but I'm not
really too concerned about that.
Thanks,
Tiffanitsa
On 7/29/08, David Poehlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
what is rong with bootcamp? this very verry knowlegeable friend who
uses
bootcamp because fusion made a mess of his mac and who knows mac and
windows
wants to know.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tiffany D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:32 PM
Subject: Using Fusion
Geia sas,
So I've decided to go with Fusion rather than Bootcamp. A very
knowledgible friend told me it was a better bet. However, he's
familiar only with Windows and not Mac. So how accessible is Fusion
on the mac in general? Can I have a shared folder and move files
between the two systems like he said? What kinds of drivers will I
need to get so that Windows will recognise the keys on my Mac? If
Fusion isn't the best option for vmware, then what is?
Thanks,
Tiffanitsa
