LisaG
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Yes, you can install Vista on an Intel Mac, and it's not hard even though Apple hasn't yet released Vista drivers. We use Boot Camp with a Mac Pro to install Mac OSX, Windows XP and Vista Ultimate - and we walk you through it. Yes, that means you can triple boot Mac OSX, Windows XP and Windows Vista! And the Mac Pro scores an impressive 5.7 out of 5.9 on the Vista Experience Test.
Read our walkthrough on installing Vista (along with OSX and XP) here: http://www.mobiletechreview.com/editorials/Vista-on-Mac.htm
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Lisa Gade
Editor in Chief, MobileTechReview
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CMillet
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I have a 2.33 Gig C2D Mac Book Pro with 2 gigs or ram and so on. And my boot camp assistant won't allow me to make another windows partition. Any ideas?
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LisaG
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I've updated our article to go into further details for MacBook and MacBook Pro owners. Unfortunately, with only one drive, the process becomes more complex. You'll need to wipe out the drive first and use Disk Utility to triple partition the drive using the GUID option (supporting both EFI and MBR). Then you have to re-install MacOSX. Then install XP by booting from the XP CD. Then install Vista from its DVD. Then you have to edit either XP or Vista's boot.ini file (Windows wants to be the last partition on a drive and obviously they can't both be last). The boot.ini is used to change boot order among other things.
I hope that the final version of Boot Camp, due out with Leopard, supports more partitions to make this easier for MB/MBP owners!
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Lisa Gade
Editor in Chief, MobileTechReview
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CMillet
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That really stinks as their no way I'm going to wipe out my hard drive since I already have XP installed and so forth...
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LisaG
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I know  I really hope Apple adds support for more partitions to Boot Camp.
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Lisa Gade
Editor in Chief, MobileTechReview
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