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Originally Posted by aristotles
Installing Vista requires deleting an extra EFI partition that XP needs to run. After you delete that partition, OS X will continue to wor…
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Originally Posted by harrisjamieh
Yay, I got aero working! Rather cool actually...
How did you do it?
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Originally Posted by Stratus Fear
All you need to do…
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Originally Posted by harrisjamieh
Edit: Oh, and for some reason, the Performance Rating thingy in vista gives my MacBook a score or 1/5 - which makes no sense as proc get…
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Originally Posted by Eug Wanker
How did you do it?
You know what, just like many a thing I have done in Windows over the years... I really am not sure how I did it. …
I got vista installing on my mini as we speak. The hardest part was downloading it. Everythime I tried to grab it, their servers were too busy. I had to keep creating new hotmai…
I finished installing vista (on my mini) and I have to say its fugly.
Where the heck is the menu bar. I have no idea how to book mark links. The file explorer is missing the menu…
It is definatly harder to use. Somehow, they managed to make it less intuitive than XP - eg you have to go through like 5 things to get to display settings, and if you are in, say …
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Originally Posted by darth-vader000
I finished installing vista (on my mini) and I have to say its fugly.
Where the heck is the menu bar. I have no idea how to book mark…
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Originally Posted by jamil5454
Downloading for my Athlon64 PC...
I wish they made Vista for PPC! My iBook is getting jealous of these Intel Macs.
Err I'm glad they…
Well I do have to say vista runs pretty good on my Macbook, typing this from there now. It's different in one way but still the same ol' windows in another.
BTW there is a opti…
Yeh, battery life is actually appauling!! Less than 1/4 of what I get in OS X. I was using Vista (full charge to start), after 10 minutes, I was down to 80% battery - thats crap!
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It's a little slow on mine, but I imagine that will be better once released, I noticed part of it is the typical windows thing. The desktop maybe loaded but there is still stuff g…
OK... On my MacBook:
Aero Glass is working fine with the GMA 950 using the Lakeport drivers, and running the Vista performance app to turn Aero on. The effects are OK, and some ar…
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Originally Posted by Eug Wanker
OK... On my MacBook:
Sound was working sort of with the Sigmatel drivers, but everything was muffled or staticky so I uninstalled those …
Yeah, I hope there is some solution to the sound issue. That crackley muffled sound was extremely annoying. This page says to use the Intel chipset drivers, not the dedicated audio…
If you've already used the "Restore" option in the Mac iPod updater, the iPod is in the factory state. The Windows buyer should simply need to use the Windows iPod updater and the…
Did he let it dry out for a good while before turning it on? The backlight may return after drying out for a little while longer, but if not it's not really something easily replac…
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
Did he let it dry out for a good while before turning it on? The backlight may return after drying out for a little while longer, but if not …