[Leica] Mac question

[shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)]

i just got my wife a macbook for her birthday in jan, so i am 
new to this, but here's my understanding.

Boot Camp lets you run your mac as either a osx-only or windows-only
computer.  when you installi it, you partition your drive into 2 
partitions, and you do a complete windows install into the new partition,
the original partition containing your osx.  thereafter when you boot
your computer, you choose which slice to boot from.

Boot Camp is made by apple, so i don't understand the 
CompUSA threat.  it is in a late beta phase.

Parallels is a 3rd party software similar in spirit to the old
Connectix Virtual PC.  Parallels runs windows in a virtual
machine within osx so you can run mac and windows programs
simultaneously.  the newer versions of parallels allow you to run
the windows programs "rootless" which means you don't have to see
the windows desktop.

Both software run only on intel macs.

i started installing boot camp on my wife's machine, but frankly rebooting
to get windows is not really attractive.  parallels seems more like
the way to go, but my understanding is that it requires you create
a virtual drive, which is a really huge file which contains the 
windows filesystem (similar to virtual pc).  i'd much prefer being able
to use a second partition a la boot camp to install windows.  the best
scenario would be the ability to use the second partition to run either 
boot camp or parallels, but i don't think they are there yet.

-rei

On Feb17 09:01, Phil Swango wrote:
> I'm not a Mac user but I have a question someone here can probably answer.
> I've heard about running Windows on a Mac using Bootcamp, Parallels, or by
> having a double-boot system if you have one of the Intel processor models.
> But last night I saw a sign at CompUSA that said Apple would void the
> warranty on any Mac found to be loaded with Bootcamp or any other
> un-approved software.  Can someone clear this up for me?
> 
> First, what's the difference between Bootcamp and Parallels?  Do you need 
> an
> Intel processor to run Windows under them?  Do you need either one if you
> have an Intel processor Mac?  How stable is Windows on a Mac?  And finally,
> how about Vista on a Mac?
> 
> Honestly, I don't need to know any of this but I'm curious.
> 
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> Phil Swango
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Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey