Tips about transferring video files to iPod So you've ripped a movie from your favorite DVD using Wondershare DVD to iPod Ripper or something similar. You made sure to set all your…

Are most of you using/planning to use both Parallels and Boot Camp or just one vs. the other? I'd consider using both (even though disk space is an issue, since my entire drive is…

Bleah, 5 minutes have passed, and it won't let me enter the poll. These were my poll options: Boot Camp - It has the best hardware support Parallels - Dual-booting sucks Both - B…

Boot Camp

BootCamp, as soon as my 120GB HD arrives. Parallels later down the road, when it's more stable/functional.

Both. They each have strengths and weaknesses. If you want to play 3D games, Boot Camp is your only choice and there are probably some cases where a peripheral or something won't w…

Bootcamp, I'd [re]consider parallels, if they resolve the usb issues and the speed didn't affect me too much and I wouldn't run into issues activating the same copy of XP (most peo…

So XP doesn't check the hardware for validation then? Cuz a Parallel's "hardware" would be different than the MacBook's, no? I haven't tried installing under Parallel's software y…

I installed the same copy of XP on Boot Camp and Parallels. I had to call Microsoft (well, someone in India, actually) to get a new code because the online activation thing wouldn'…

Quote: Originally Posted by Icruise What I'm wondering is, how would XP react if you copied the Parallels disk image to another computer after it's been validated. I very…

Both Boot Camp and Parallels will find exactly the same hardware on the Mac, so there should be no reason to revalidate or reauthenticate. I'm not sure exactly how MS's process wo…

I'll try Parallels one day, but I don't want to have to re-setup the whole Windows partition the way I have it under BootCamp. Is there a way to import a Windows partition from Boo…

Quote: Originally Posted by Cadaver I'll try Parallels one day, but I don't want to have to re-setup the whole Windows partition the way I have it under BootCamp. Is there a way…

Boot Camp for now, until Parallels is capable of running off the Boot Camp partition. I'm too lazy for two installs, and I need the native installation for games.

Well, I'll have to change my vote...I decided to install Parallels after getting Boot Camp all set up, and was impressed enough by the performance to keep it. It's a bit of a pain …

Quote: Originally Posted by Macola The only downside is that OS X seems somewhat sluggish when I have Parallels running, but that may becasue I only have 1 GB of RAM in my MacBo…

Quote: Originally Posted by TheoCryst Boot Camp for now, until Parallels is capable of running off the Boot Camp partition. I'm too lazy for two installs, and I need the native …

They're working on it, or so they say. I wouldn't think it would be all that hard to implement.

You can put the virtual Parallels drive on the Boot Camp partition. (Or at least Parallels says I can, cuz I have it formatted as FAT32.) You can't use the native Boot Camp install…

Quote: Originally Posted by Eug Wanker So what do you think? Worth a $40 pre-order (especially now that the final price is $80)? For me, it's well worth $40...even if VM…

P.S. On my MacBook 2.0, I can play back 720p 30 fps H.264 video at about half the frame rate. Not bad. Quote: Originally Posted by Macola For me, it's well worth $40...even …

Quote: Originally Posted by Eug Wanker You can put the virtual Parallels drive on the Boot Camp partition. I fail to see the point of doing this, since Parallels and Boot Ca…

I'm thinking $40-$50 is a good price, but $80 is too much. I maybe will have to preorder it as well. I'm spending a lot more on this macbook than I anticipated. ($200 for RAM, $15…

Quote: Originally Posted by Icruise I fail to see the point of doing this, since Parallels and Boot Camp can't see each other's data. Well, I don't use my Boot Camp partitio…

i want to just install XP to use Slingbox . . . do i need to install bootcamp? or can I just install parallels? or do i have install both?