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| naventus United States. December 30 2008 16:06. Posts 1337 | Profile Blog # |
http://guides.macrumors.com/Mac_Beginner%27s_Guide
That's a bit messy, but it has all the information you'll ever want. Ideally you will have someone around you that can show you some of the immediatedly useful things you need.
Regarding XP: No risks or complications. If you don't use a volume license key (so look for this kind), you won't be able to use Automatic Update. Alternatively, just download a SP3 XP CD and don't update at all. There's a whole mess of shit here, so make sure you read what it says in the torrent descriptions.
I would recommend Boot Camp. For newer games, you will have better performance. For SC, you will have the benefit of mouse drivers and correct "feel".
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 IzzyCraft United States. December 30 2008 16:14. Posts 4487 | Profile Blog # |
The risk of downloading a windows xp cd and burning it onto a cd then trying to use it with boot camp well the risk is that it doesn't work or is filled with viruses but i doubt the virus part if you are reading torrent comments.
You also risk it not working and becoming a useless chuck in like 10 days because you couldn't activate it. Also with that you risk unable to being able to update anything windows which would be a bitch. Can't afford the 150 ish for a xp cd. or like 85 for an oem disk
but it should just work like anything else if i think i know what boot camp does. Which is creates a partition which can be used to put another o.s. on it.
If it fucks up the most it should do is force you to try to delete that partition or re partition it. I don't know how a mac gets boot up priority but as long as the xp isn't your main boot mac should work even if it does fail to work. You'll just be temperately out of disk space until you free it up again.
In short baislly it's no risk to your mac but you coudl see
A cripled XP
Or a dead part of your HDD until you get the XP working.Last edit: 2008-12-30 17:05:07 |
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 pachi Melbourne. December 30 2008 16:35. Posts 5067 | Profile # |
| Make sure you get quicksilver, makes the mac more fun. (Also allows you not to have every program you install in your dock so you don't look so silly) |
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| CDRdude United States. December 30 2008 17:56. Posts 5414 | Profile Blog # |
Izzy, you mentioned boot priority: you can set the default partition to boot from, or you hold option as you boot up, and then you can choose (or you can hold 't' as you boot, and your computer acts like an external hard drive). I second the motion for quicksilver. I personally use bootcamp, and I like it. I have no experience with parallels, so I can't speak for or against it. I do recall having a little bit of trouble getting mac drivers installed on the windows partition though. I recommend installing MacDrive on the windows half, it lets you look at the mac part of your computer while in windows (mac side can do it automagically). As for keyboard shortcuts, press command+control+option 8. + Show Spoiler +I have no clue why someone felt the need to hotkey the ability to invert colors
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