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Post by Forum Cat on Oct 20, 2008 11:35:55 GMT
It seems that the case will not be going to court. Clicky
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Post by SignedAdam on Mar 1, 2010 16:40:23 GMT
I think Psystar would be a good thing for apple, if apple was to make a PC OS X, it would make it a little easy for apple to do that, but, some people did pay for a apple computer and it was not a low price,
If Apple and Psystar was to join, there could be a PC OS X, that apple could use to kill windows, come to think of it, Apple could be the only good OS out there,
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Post by Forum Cat on Mar 1, 2010 18:23:03 GMT
Why would Apple want to kill Windows? Apple are a hardware company and a very profitable one at that. The reason that they make so much money is that you can only get the OS on their hardware. It is Apple's USP without it who would buy their kit?
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Post by Forum Cat on Mar 3, 2010 19:18:12 GMT
apple could use to kill windows, come to think of it, Apple could be the only good OS out there, Also Windows runs really quite well on Macs. One reason people buy Macs is to have a good quality computer to run Windows on.
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Post by SignedAdam on Mar 3, 2010 22:57:03 GMT
@forum Cat - Not from what i can see , 27'inc IMac I5's with 512mb of 3D ram come up with a black thing as your setting up windows with a user name and password, as windows does not know what the mac hardware is, so it set's it up with something that lets you not see a thing, after putting in the user name and password, you need to wait in tell you think your at the desktop, (when at the desktop, you need to power off your imac) then power it on again, wait in tell you can press f8 to get in to safe mod, then login, delete the bad drive, then reboot back to the desktop, and set it up with the bootcamp dvd, after all that and the 300mb download, you end up with a imac that looks like its got something wrong with the 3D card. I can not wait in tell apple update the windows 7 drives
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Post by Forum Cat on Mar 4, 2010 9:32:07 GMT
Well I have not done it as I have no use for Windows. However Bootcamp should allow most flavours of Windows to run with no problems at all.
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Post by sjbuchanan007 on Mar 4, 2010 12:34:24 GMT
I have done it.
I pre-ordered a copy of Windows 7 (as I didn't want to pay fuill price for something I don't like and will rarely use) I received 2 days before the launch date.
I ran BootCamp on the iMac, setup a partition and installed Windows 7. The main trick is to insert your Mac OS X install discs whilst in Windows to install bootcamp to Windows, which will download the necessary drivers.
The install went well and most things worked, Windows 7 wasnt fully supported by BootCamp at launch, but there was a workaround for everything else.
Recently BootCamp was updated and now fully supports Windows 7, it downloaded all of the correct drivers and everything works perfectly
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Post by SignedAdam on Mar 4, 2010 14:00:37 GMT
sjbuchanan007 - Yes, but what Mac do you own, I have the high end IMac, there is more then one Mac, so it's not going to be the same for all of us, there are big, BIG, problem's with the IMac boot camp drives for Windows 7, I'm talking about the 27'inc IMac I5's with 512mb of 3D ram!!
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Post by Forum Cat on Mar 4, 2010 17:18:03 GMT
Are you saying that there is a general problem? I have not heard of one. I had a look on the Apple information/support pages and found this. support.apple.com/kb/HT3986
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Post by SignedAdam on Mar 5, 2010 11:16:40 GMT
@forum Cat - Yes that is the problem, Thanks for showing me that, but my way does not need a usb drive with drive's on it, I think it is a problem and Apple need to fix it, there could do a better job, then asking users to put a USB Drive in with drives on it, What do you think Forum Cat, would you like to (have to) put a USB Dive into your Mac book pro, ever time you install Windows 7 ? No, No you would Not, and that's my look on the hole thing, Apple need to fix the problem, there have just done a easy fix for it,
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Post by Forum Cat on Mar 5, 2010 11:35:14 GMT
What do you think Forum Cat, would you like to (have to) put a USB Dive into your Mac book pro, ever time you install Windows 7 ? I am confused now. The article says this. What You Need- An Intel-based Mac computer with Mac OS X 10.6 or later - The keyboard and mouse or trackpad that came with your computer. (If they aren’t available, use a USB keyboard and mouse.) - Mac OS X version 10.6 or later (the latest version of Mac OS X is strongly recommended) - A built-in optical disc drive or a compatible external optical drive For information on using your computer with an external optical drive, see the documentation that came with your computer. - A Mac OS X version 10.6 installation disc - One of the following: Windows XP Home Edition or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later (32-bit version only) Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate, Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate. No need for a USB drive.
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